HARVEST Thanksgiving Services take place all round the country at this time of year. Jesus used the image of harvest to portray human need and the importance of more disciples sharing the good news. “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:37-38 NIV 2011).
Jesus’ way of growing disciples was not to enrol them into a college for a course of formal instruction. Instead he said ‘Follow me’ and invited them to walk his way. Sometimes we get put off by the word ‘disciple’, feeling it is only for the elite. However, if we were to rebrand it ‘apprentice’ we might get a better understanding.
While an apprentice may well have some formal teaching, most skills are learned on the job through observation, imitation and practice. Of course there will be misunderstandings, mistakes, failures and setbacks. Yet these occasions off er a chance for learning, to reflect on why things happened and what might be done diff erently the next time. The mastery of any trade comes after a series of false starts.
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