Matthew - Day 7: Fishing For People

In today’s reading you will learn about Jesus beginning to share His message, as fulfilled by the prophet Isaiah. You will also see how Jesus called His disciples to get up and follow Him. In was through their profession that He would explain what it meant to follow Him. It is in this calling that He would begin to set a precedent for all people as to what it meant to surrender and live their life for Him. This section serves as a crucial part of what it means to follow Jesus for us today.

Read Matthew 4:12-25

Q: Where did Jesus start his ministry? How did this fulfill scripture? (Isaiah 9:1-2, 42:7)

Q: Whom did Jesus call to be His disciples? What were they doing?

Q: When Jesus called on His disciples to follow Him, it says they left immediately and followed Him. Is there something God is calling you to leave so that you can best follow Him?

Q: Followers of Jesus fish for people. Fishing for people is the equivalent of what Matthew shares at the end of his book, referred to as “making disciples.” Think about this…if I am not making disciples, then I am not fishing for people. If I am not fishing for people, am I really following Jesus? What do you think?

Q: Discipleship is following Jesus. Disciple making (or fishing for people) is asking others to follow you as you follow Jesus? How are discipleship and disciple making related? How are they different?

Q: How does the thought of making disciples make you feel? What is one step that you can take to be become better at making disciples?

For Further Study: Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Colossians 1:29, 2 Timothy 2:2