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•7耶稣叫了十二个门徒来，差遣他们两个两个地出去，也赐给他们权柄，制伏污鬼，8并且嘱咐他们：“行路的时候不要带食物和口袋，腰袋里也不要带钱，除了拐杖以外，什么都不要带，9只要穿鞋，也不要穿两件褂子。”10又对他们说：“你们无论到何处，进了人的家，就住在那里，直到离开那地方。11何处的人不接待你们，不听你们，你们离开那里的时候，就把脚上的尘土跺下去，对他们作见证。”12门徒就出去传道，叫人悔改，13又赶出许多的鬼，用油抹了许多病人，治好他们。
如果你看耶稣吩咐给门徒的任务，基本上就是做耶稣正在做的事。他们所传的信息，就是悔改、罪的赦免。他们赶鬼治病，不是靠自己的能力，而是靠耶稣的能力。他们轻装出行，不带任何额外的东西，他们的生活所需依靠那些听道的人的慷慨供应。耶稣培训门徒，这样他们就可以用同样的方法培训别人成为门徒。
我常常想，如果我能重新再来一次以前的事工，我会花更多的时间去训练门徒，一次训练少数人去参与事工。等这批人准备好了，我再训练一批。我们很容易让自己完全陷入事工的工作中，所有事都自己做，而没有花时间去训练别人。受过训练的平信徒当然可以去医院探访病人，当然可以探访那些在家无法来教会的人，当然可以去跟进那些刚听到福音的人。此外，事工的工作是一定有果效的。为什么并不让平信徒一同经历这样的喜乐呢？
最重要的是，通过训练十二门徒并差遣他们出去，这样比耶稣自己去做要完成的工作要多。如果耶稣能训练渔夫、税吏和其他人去做宣教工作，我们也可以。
祷告:主耶稣，你呼召我们在你的国度里作君王和祭司。求你帮助我们看到身边有很多事工的机会，并且充分利用每一个机会去呼召失丧的人悔改。阿们。
Mark 6:6-13: Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. 7 Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits. 8 These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9 Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. 10 Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” 12 They went out and preached that people should repent. 13 They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them. (NIV)
If you look at the mission that Jesus gave his disciples, it was basically to do what he was doing. They preached repentance for the forgiveness of sins. They drove out demons and healed people as well, not by their own power, but by Jesus’ power. They traveled light and relied on the generosity of the people to whom they preached. Jesus made disciples so that they could in turn make disciples of others.
I think that if I had to do my ministry all over again, I would spend more time training a handful of people at a time to do the work of the ministry. When they were ready, then I would train a handful more. It was so easy to get caught up in doing the work of the ministry and do the work yourself instead of taking the time to train others. There is no reason that trained lay people couldn’t make hospital visits and visit the homebound and follow up on prospects. Besides, ministry work is very rewarding. Why should the lay person miss out on all the fun?
The bottom line is that more work got done by training the twelve and sending them out than if Jesus had done it all himself. If Jesus could train fishermen and tax collectors and others to do mission work, so can we.
Prayer: You called us to be kings and priests in your kingdom. Help us to see the opportunities for ministry all around us, and make most of every opportunity to call the lost to repentance. Amen.