Disciples Are Sent

How do you know if you are being sent? Are you being sent? Where are you being sent? To whom are you being sent? 

All disciples are called to go. We are a people who are being sent by God. Jesus is inviting us to join with him in his redemptive and restorative work in the world. 

Matthew tells us Jesus called his disciples and he sent them out. In his gospel account, Matthew writes, “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.” (Matthew 10:1-4, ESV). 

God called a diverse group of disciples for a diverse mission—to have authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. God wanted a people for himself who would do his redemptive and restorative work in the world. Jesus sent his disciples to make other disciples. 

If we are followers of Jesus, we are also disciples of Jesus who are being called to make disciples of Jesus by doing the redemptive and restorative work of God in the world. 

If we know God, we can be confident someone was sent to us, and we are being sent to others. We are being sent to those who are suffering, to those who are sick, and to those who are afflicted. We are being sent to everyone who has need of God’s presence and God’s redemptive and restorative work in the world. 

May we be disciples of Jesus who are sent out into the world to do the work that God has given us to do. 

A Collect for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, or the Second Sunday after Trinity (Proper 6): “O Lord, from whom all good proceeds: Grant us the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may always think those things that are good, and by your merciful guidance may accomplish the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019). 

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