Jesus often told the disciples He would make them fishers of men. I’ve often thought of those passages from my framework of fishing. I’d think about casting my line in and seeing what I bring in. But that is not at all how the disciples would have thought about it or what Jesus was saying.
The disciples knew that to fish you would cast your net out, pull the haul into your boat, and then return to shore. Once you got to shore, you would sort out the good fish from the bad fish and junk you had pulled in. This is the framework that Jesus was using when He talked about making fishers of men.
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