During His life on earth, Jesus was our ultimate mentor. He demonstrated how we could live in union with the Father. He chose twelve disciples to follow Him and demonstrated how to live life, teach others, and bring hope to the lost. This included explaining the Gospel in a clear, loving way.
Jesus was committed to prayer. He knew the relationship with His Father was critical to life and ministry. Large crowds surrounded Him, but Jesus always found time to withdraw and pray. Before He appointed the disciples, He escaped to a mountaintop to pray. He even gave the disciples a model, teaching them how to pray.
Jesus didn’t go it alone. Ministry happens in community. He invited others to join Him. “He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach” (Mark 3:14, NIV). Then He commissioned 72 others to go, two by two, ahead of Him from town to town to prepare the way. Jesus chose people who had caught His vision. They were His representatives. His instructions were clear: “whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me, but whoever rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me” (L ...
