In Rabbis and Disciples Pt 7: A Difficult Lifestyle, Bible teacher Brad Gray walks us through the difficult and costly lifestyle of Jesus. In the rabbinic system of Jesus’s day, one couldn’t just decide to become a rabbi. Instead, becoming a rabbi was the culmination of a lifetime of brilliance, endurance, and rigorous study. As we’ve seen in previous episodes, one had to be around the age of thirty to become a sage. And there are some fascinating connections in the Hebrew Scriptures between the age of thirty and people doing significant things for God.
But Jesus’s lifestyle was no cakewalk, nor was it as glorious as we might imagine. As an itinerant rabbi, he moved from town to town teaching on hillsides, in synagogues, and in people’s homes. In doing so, Jesus embedded the training of his disciples into the fabric of everyday life. Discipleship wasn’t just about learning what he said, but watching what he did. This kind of itinerant lifestyle allowed him to serve the needs of his community while also training his disciples at the same time.
But it came at a significant cost. This was life on the go. It meant training teenage disciples who often didn’t understand. It meant debating arrogant religious teachers, engaging people’s pain and disease, and entering into countless awkward conversations and experiences. It meant leaving your family and not always knowing where your next meal was coming from. Yet, in the midst of all that difficulty, Jesus saw it as completely worth it. Jesus understood God’s Word, embodied that Word in his life, and then taught others to do the same. In Rabbis and Disciples Pt 7: A Difficult Lifestyle, we’ll see that living like Rabbi Jesus is hard, but it’s worth it!
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