00:00Hello brothers and sisters! Welcome back to our Mater Eclesia school. I invite you to
00:22Let us prepare these moments so that the Lord may give us the ears of a disciple in our second
00:26Discipleship training session. Today we will look at the teacher and the disciple, a relationship for all
00:34Life is undoubtedly the best, brothers. Today, the church urgently needs to recapture its strength.
00:43its original mission of making disciples to create environments of intimacy and relationship that produce
00:49multiplication and transformation. Jesus clearly indicated in the Gospel of Matthew 28:19 that
00:57For him, the mission of the church amounts to the production of one thing only: going and making disciples.
01:05to all nations. The mission is the same for everyone: to make disciples of Jesus. With this we see
01:13The importance of understanding how teachers should train disciples. What were they like?
01:21Teachers of Israel? The teacher-disciple relationship in Israel was very different from what we have today.
01:29We are used to the teachers in our schools. To understand this, we need to let go of our preconceived notions.
01:36from our academic concepts and enter the time tunnel, which transports us to
01:43Eastern thought and the prevailing mentality of two thousand years ago. They were scholars of the law who taught
01:51Living in accordance with the divine plan made it easier to find the meaning of existence and the way to
01:58to fulfill one's own vocation. Thus, the teacher became more important than the father himself. For a good
02:05In Hebrew, knowing how to live was far more fundamental than simply living, and therefore, the teacher took priority.
02:12about the same parent. Giyel or Samay did not have an academy or institute to teach their
02:21knowledge, but rather their own lifestyle was what they taught. Their authority was not based on
02:30It wasn't his titles or studies that drew attention, but the life he led. That's what attracted others.
02:39to follow and imitate them. Their example was more eloquent than their words. Therefore, the disciples had to
02:48Living with their teacher, since it was by observing him that they learned to live. Jesus appears on the scene
02:56religious of his time as one more of these teachers of Israel, therefore, he comes to teach and to live.
03:05That is why he accepts being called Rabbi, which means teacher, and surrounds himself with followers to teach them to live the same way.
03:15in the way he does. Teacher is one of the few titles Jesus uses to refer to himself. John 13:13
03:24You call me teacher and lord, and rightly so, for that is what I am. However, Jesus is distinct from the others.
03:35teachers by five characteristics that make them unique. First characteristic. At that time the disciples
03:44They had the right to select the teacher who most convinced and suited them. In the case of Jesus,
03:51That is not so. He personally chooses each of his followers. John 15:16 tells us,
04:01You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit,
04:09and that fruit will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will grant you.
04:17The Lord chose the twelve apostles from among his disciples, in order to receive inspiration from his Father,
04:25to choose who would be the main leaders of their church. Here we might ask ourselves,
04:31Was the free will of the twelve violated when Christ chose them? Not at all. The twelve had
04:41The freedom to reject the calling with which the Lord had invested them. But they chose to accept.
04:48of his own free will. And what was the reason he called them? Paul answers that question.
04:57And he, Jesus Christ himself, appointed some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists,
05:09to other pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry,
05:16for the building up of the body of Christ, until we all reach unity in the faith and in the Lord.
05:22knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
05:31so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine,
05:37through the strategy of men who cleverly employ the tricks of error to deceive.
05:44Ephesians 4, 11, 14. Therefore, if the apostles were necessary in the past,
05:54Today they are much more so, seen as a temporary stage. Second characteristic: discipleship was taken
06:03as a temporary phase. Jesus' disciples follow him for life and are not allowed to.
06:11To turn back. Luke 9:62. Jesus said to them, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service.”
06:23for the kingdom of God. In one of Pope Francis' meditations on this passage,
06:31It tells us, Jerusalem is the final goal, where Jesus, in his last Passover, must die and rise again,
06:40and thus fulfill their mission of salvation. From that moment, after that firm decision,
06:49Jesus heads towards his goal. And also towards the people he meets who ask him to follow him.
06:55He clearly tells them what the conditions are. Not having a stable home, knowing how to let go of the
07:03human affections, not giving in to nostalgia for the past. But Jesus also says to his disciples,
07:12charged with preceding him on the way to Jerusalem, to announce his passing, that they should not impose anything.
07:20If there is availability to accommodate him, then proceed, let's move forward.
07:26Jesus never imposes. Jesus is humble. Jesus invites. If you want, come.
07:37Third characteristic. The disciples were at the service of the Master in almost the same way that a
07:45A slave served his master. Jesus, on the other hand, does not call them servants, but friends. John 15:15.
07:54He no longer called you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends.
08:02Because everything I have heard from my father I have made known to you. The relationship that can mostly
08:12The relationship between an employer and an employee is far from being like that between friends. The employee does what the employer does.
08:21He asks him to do it. Sometimes willingly, sometimes not. He's not interested in the boss's intentions. He just...
08:30He wants to do his job. There isn't much trust. This is something like the servant-servant relationship.
08:39The Bible depicts us as slaves or those who had to serve. Jesus, on the other hand, receives us as friends, not as slaves or those who had to serve.
08:50Servants or subordinates. And what is it about Jesus that makes us become his friends?
08:58Simply put, great trust and the gift of a great treasure from him. The treasure of giving us
09:08The secret to being his true children and achieving a life closer to his peace and joy
09:16and of his love, of our entire existence. This is what his father has bequeathed to him, and he shares it with
09:26us. The only difference between the friendship of Christ and the friendship we may have with our friends is
09:35It lies in the fact that the friendship of Jesus Christ does not originate from a compatibility of characters or ideas, principles or
09:46Interests, favors, or affections. The friendship of Jesus Christ is free, it is eternal. He offers it to us in just an instant.
09:59A friendship that has lasted for years. The only important condition is to accept him and apply his wise teachings to our lives.
