no superman

There is noSuperman

In these days he went out to the mountain

to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God.

And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose

from them twelve,

whom he named apostles;

Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his

brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and

Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and

Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a

traitor. Luke 6:12-16. RSV

Why did Jesus

choose these

twelve?

What if Donald Trump

had chosen

the twelve?

But we have this treasure in earthen

vessels, that the excellence of the power

may be of God and not of us.

2 Corinthians 4:7. NKJV

If you only look at us, you might well miss the

brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the

unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent

anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us.

2 Corinthians 4:7 The Message

I can be like

them!

God doesn’t choose super men & women;

God chooses ordinary men & women so that the glory and the

credit do not go to the person but to God.

You'll remember, friends, that when I first

came to you to let you in on God's master stroke, I didn't try

to impress you with polished speeches and the latest

philosophy.

I deliberately kept it plain and simple:

first Jesus and who he is; then Jesus and what he did —

Jesus crucified.

I was unsure of how to go about this, and felt totally

inadequate — I was scared to death, if you want the truth of it — and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone

else. But the Message came through anyway.

God's Spirit and God's power did it,

which made it clear that your life of faith is a response to God's

power, not to some fancy mental or emotional footwork by

me or anyone else. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. The Message

Jesus does not choose us because of what we are, but because of what he makes from us.

Jesus puts value in every

It doesn’t matter who

you are, what you are,

Jesus makes you

valuable…

When we obey the word of God the tide comes in. The immovable becomes

movable, the incurable becomes curable, and the

impossible becomes possible.