Discipling over lunch

Time to serve lunch. “Have the crowd sit down,” Jesus told the twelve.

“There was much grass in the place,” John tells us (John 6.10). In my hippie era, I too was in a lot of places with a lot of grass, but I am glad that is all in the past.

The question of the day is why.

Why did Jesus get the twelve involved?

They were superfluous to the situation, totally unnecessary.

In fact, they were often simply in the way.

Part of the reason is that Jesus was discipling.

What good is having disciples if you are not discipling them?

Von, the man who discipled me, defined discipling as teaching on the run.

Yep.

He ran, I would follow, and he would purposely think out loud for my benefit.

My job was to take it all in. And ask questions.