During that time, Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night long. At daybreak, he called together his disciples. He chose twelve of them whom he called apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter; his brother Andrew; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called a zealot; Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. Jesus came down from the mountain with them and stood on a large area of level ground. A great company of his disciples and a huge crowd of people from all around Judea and Jerusalem and the area around Tyre and Sidon joined him there. They came to hear him and to be healed from their diseases, and those bothered by unclean spirits were healed. The whole crowd wanted to touch him, because power was going out from him and he was healing everyone. (Luke 6:12-19, CEB)
Jesus prayed and then at day break he called together his disciples. He chose 12 and called them apostles. Wait I thought there were 12 disciples?
How many disciples were there?
Well if you read all of the gospels you will see a different list of 12 men called apostles by Jesus. But there are many people who would be considered disciples.
You see the word disciple in Greek means learner. So anyone who learns from Jesus is a disciple. Anyone, men, women, children, slaves, lepers, those forsaken, those accepted. If you learned from Jesus you are his disciple.
And Jesus named 12 apostles, which means sent. He named 12 people to go into the world to tell about love. But aren’t all of us really sent by Jesus, “as the father sent me, so I send you.”
Learn and go.
Learn about love and go and share love.
Loving People. Loving God.
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