The focus of preaching on this text is generally the call issued by Jesus and the prompt response of these first disciples to that call – immediately leaving everything to follow Jesus. What sometimes gets overlooked is that it is John the Baptist’s arrest that sets the tone for the call story that follows. From the very beginning, the call to discipleship is a call to the cross. Secondly, the disciples are called in pairs. The Christian vocation is not about me and Jesus but involves community from the outset. Finally, ‘traditional family values” as well as the economic system are overturned as these two sets of brothers abandon their families and their livelihoods in order to create a new “family” living in God’s economy of abundance.
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