Day 196: Casting and Mending the Nets

I’m quite serious when I say I think the Lord knew what He was doing when the first four men He called were all fishermen. And it’s interesting to notice two of them were casting their nets and two of them were mending their nets. Casting the net is proclaiming the Gospel to the people who need to hear it, but mending the net is keeping the church in good order. I think a lot of evangelization these days is casting a net with holes in it. We haven’t mended our nets. We haven’t restored our relationships, and the people come and say, “Well, if that’s what Christians are like, I don’t think I want it.” So they swim out again.