GOING FISHING

Comment by Francis Chan’s the highly successful pastor and author giving his reasons for moving to Myanmar as a missionary in February 2020:

“I describe it like this: I feel like I’ve been fishing in the same pool my whole life and now there’s like thousands of other fishermen at the same pool, and our lines are getting tangled and everyone’s fighting over stupid things, and one guy tries some new lure and we go, “Oh he caught a fish, let’s all try that method!”

And it just feels like, what are we all doing here?

What if I heard of a lake that’s like a five-mile hike away, and no one’s fishing it. And they’re saying, “Man, the fish are biting… just throw a hook in there and they’ll go for it!” Man, I’ll make that five-mile hike if I love fishing.

What would keep me at that same pond? I’ll tell you what would keep me at the pond, is I built a house on the pond, and all my friends have houses on the pond. And we don’t even fish that much, we just go out, and we hang out, and we talk, and we play, and I don’t want to leave my friends.

But if my calling is to go fish, and there’s no one fishing over there, why wouldn’t I go?”

“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Jesus