{"product_id":"2940013492219","title":"The Making of an Apostle [With ATOC]","description":"Contents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Making of an Apostle \u003cbr\u003eSimon Meets with Jesus \u003cbr\u003eThe Call to Service \u003cbr\u003eSimon's First Commission as a Preacher \u003cbr\u003eSimon Acknowledges Jesus to be the Christ \u003cbr\u003eSimon Peter Witnesses the Transfiguration \u003cbr\u003ePeter Thinks his Sacrifice Complete \u003cbr\u003eThe Scene in the Upper Room \u003cbr\u003eGethsemane and After \u003cbr\u003eThe Power of the Resurrection \u003cbr\u003eA New Commission \u003cbr\u003eThe Prince of the Apostles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\"THE MAKING OF AN APOSTLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New Testament supplies us with little in the way of biography. Even from the Gospels themselves we do not gather much concerning the actual life of our Lord apart from His public ministry. It has been justly said that no person has ever influenced the history of the world on such a scale as Jesus of Nazareth, yet it would be impossible to write a chronological life of the Founder of Christianity. What is true of the Master is true of His followers. We know very little about the Apostles themselves; apart from their life-work of preaching Christ, the details of their circumstances and fortunes are most meagre. Yet it is worth while from such materials as we have to attempt to trace the influence of Jesus Christ upon those through whom He founded His Church upon earth. The choice of Apostles, for instance, is sometimes regarded as having been made in a very exceptional or semi-miraculous way, that Jesus summoned to His side individuals upon whom His gaze fell for the first time, and that these men forthwith became the instruments of His service. But from comparison of the Gospel narratives we discover that very interesting life-stories might be written concerning the men who stood closest to Jesus during His earthly ministry. We find, as we might have expected, that Jesus took in them an active personal interest, that their lives were shaped under His influence as clay in the hands of the potter, that He had a plan with each of them, and patiently worked at it, that He applied to them a discriminating treatment and placed upon each his own individual value. Is not the same process going forward even now? Does not the risen Lord still continue to issue His summonses to the souls of men? We feel that it were better to think so, and that He by whom the very hairs of our head are all numbered still gives to His servants in the world individual care, interest and attention, fashioning heroes and saints out of the most unpromising materials, and making apostles as in the days of old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an example of Jesus's ways of dealing with His servants the life of the Apostle Peter is most suggestive. In the first place, because he was admitted to be the leader of the Apostles, or at any rate occupied the position of greatest prominence amongst them, and also because we are able by the comparative method to obtain from the Gospels sufficient information for a history of his character, if not of his career during the three most formative years of his life.\"","brand":"Ladislav Deczi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147534156016,"sku":"2940013492219","price":3.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013492219_p0.jpg?v=1763582095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013492219","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}