In Luke chapter 10, as Dr. Las shared with us, we are given a snapshot of Jesus as the ultimate mission leader. There are two terms Dr. Las gave us:
1. Trial Run. This passage is the first account we have of our Lord sending out dozens of people whom He had empowered to do His work in the world. The specificity of the assignment implies that this was the first time these seventy-two disciples had gone on mission "on their own".
2. Training Exercise. These teams of disciples were receiving their first taste of what Christ Himself did as an itinerant minister of the gospel. Rather than the sick and needy of the world coming to the disciples, it was contingent upon the disciples to go out to the places where the need was.
A question for us to reflect on: Are we going out into the towns, or are we waiting for the towns to come to us?
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