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Friday, January 6, 2017

Ancient Rednecks

"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it." (Acts 4:13-14).
It gives my heart a thrill of joy to know that Jesus Christ chose to use a couple of simple, uneducated commercial fishermen to spearhead the establishment of His Church in Jerusalem. Peter and John were basically two ancient Israeli rednecks. God's enemies, the Pharisees and Sadducees, must have been like "Man! These guys should just go back to their smelly fishnets!"
A formal education is not a bad thing. It's not necessarily a good thing either. It's just a thing - period. You can do good or evil with a formal education. You can do good or evil without one too. Having or not having a formal education has nothing whatsoever to do with following Christ. It doesn't make anyone a better or worse person, or Christian. The only thing that really matters is whether or not you've (as the above Scripture says) "been with Jesus".

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