Matthew 4:21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
1 Corinthians 1:10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
These 2 verses come from the readings for the 3rd Sunday After Epiphany. They contain the same word in the Greek, and say a lot about how we are to be as the church. The word is also found in Ephesians 4:12. The word is καταρτιζω. It means mending or united or equipping.
We can see from the Sons of Thunder that sometimes we have to take a break from fishing and gathering to med the tools we use. We have to mend the nets in order to catch fish, and as Paul reminds the Corinthians (and us): “we need to be united in the same mind and judgment.” We have to restore what is broken and keep divisions from separating us from the work we have been called to. And that work is not the being a net and dragging people into church. I’m pretty sure we can be united and mutually equip each other to use the love that God has given us to positively affect the world around us.
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