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More About the Follow Me Lesson Series
How would Jesus' disciples learn to be “fishers of men” (Mathew 4:19)?  The answer is so simple that we often miss it. They learned by just being with Christ. Jesus didn’t lay out a step-by-step process for disciple-making. He just did it. His life was the lesson. And because those men chose to leave their fishing nets, families and lives and follow Him, they had a front-row seat to the entire ministry of Jesus Christ. The natural result of answering the call to follow Christ and be His disciple is that we learn how to make disciples.

But this was not an overnight process. Being Jesus’ disciple for these men meant spending three years literally following Jesus everywhere He went. They learned from Jesus as He taught the crowds, and there would be times when Jesus took the twelve aside and taught them privately.  They saw first-hand how Jesus loved and met the needs of others as He healed them, and then Jesus gave them authority and sent them out to do the same (Matthew 10:1,5). 

There would be times that Jesus questioned their faith (Luke 8:25), and times that He washed their feet (John 13:5). The result of them being in such close relationship with Christ would be a life forever changed, and a new perspective on their purpose in life. He is their Lord (master) and Savior, but He is also their Rabbi (teacher) and their friend. They would naturally begin to train and lead others because they had been shown how to do it by Christ Himself. 

This teaching series examines what it means to be Jesus' disciple--in Bible days and in today's world--and how we can be not only His disciples, but disciple-makers.