His Hands and Feet

Jesus asked, “Have you understood all these things?”

“Yes,” they told Him.

“Therefore,” He said to them, “every student of Scripture instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who brings out of his storeroom what is new and what is old.”

This passage is taken from Matthew 13:51-53. What was Jesus was saying?

From studying the series of parables that come before this passage in the Gospels, we recognize that those who follow Jesus are a sent people called to share the kingdom of God here and now. Unfortunately many haven’t budged from their spots on the pew (John 20:21). Sadly, many have become consumers, taking what they need from the church to be personally fulfilled and expecting it to provide every time.

Many Christians—myself included—fall into this mindset and the rut of “doing” church in the same spot each week rather than going out and “being” the church to the world. Church doesn’t stop on Sundays. We ARE the church. Jesus called us to go out and take the church into our neighborhoods, our jobs, our meetings, and so on.

So let me ask, how much are you being the hands and feet of Jesus throughout your week? Even in the little things? Are you acting as a sent disciple of Jesus to the world—sharing both the old and new truths of Scripture and being a witness of who He is?

He’s told us: “Go…and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20).

[By Kaylan Christopher]