TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

BIBLE TEXT: “Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.” (Mark 1:16-20 KJV)

BIBLE TWEET: Christ did not commission His disciples to clean up the pond, but to fish in it. When the church exchanges political activism for preaching the Gospel, it makes itself ineffectual to effect change upon the earth. (Matthew 4:18-22)

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: A man was distracted from reading his newspaper by his noisy little boy. Therefore, he tore a page out of his paper with a picture of the world on it. He then tore the torn out page into pieces and gave it to his son, instructing the lad to put the world together. Much to the man’s surprise, his son was able to accomplish the assigned task in short order. When the father asked his son how he was able to do it, the boy replied: “It was simple, because there was a picture of a man on the other side, and once I got the man right, the world was right.” The only way the world will ever change is if men change. The only way men will ever change is if God changes them. And the only way God will change men is through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which Christ commissioned His church to preach to all men everywhere. Therefore, if the church minors on the major—the preaching of the Gospel—and majors on the minor—political activism—it will be ineffectual to effect change upon the earth.

According to the late Paul Harvey, the contemporary church has “drifted away from being fishers of men to [become] keepers of the aquarium.”