Blue-Collar Nobodies

In Scripture, God has pulled many surprises. The apostle Paul went from being a persecutor and a murderer of Christians to a writer of at least a dozen books of the Bible. Peter went from promising to never deny Christ, to repeatedly doing so, to then becoming the rock on which the church was built. David went from the murder-conspiracy boardroom, to the satisfying of his flesh, to becoming best known as a man after God’s own heart. The motley bunch of men known as the disciples were blue-collar nobodies without proper education or credentials. They were slow to grasp what Jesus was teaching. At one point, Jesus wondered how they could be so dull and dense in their lack of understanding his parables. Yet God took this pitiful bunch and equipped them to carry out the gospel message. It’s because of them that we know it today. As a charter member of the "pitiful bunch" crowd of today, this is proof that there's hope for me (and you)!