Biblical discipleship is a life as a student. Not the idea of sitting down for 8 hours a day at a desk in a classroom listening to another person repeat what they themselves were taught in a similar classroom.

No.

The discipleship that is a student life, is an active empirical learning process. It is intensive interactive apprenticeship.

When Yeshua called His disciples it’s not like churchianity acts like it was. He didn’t just walk along the shore and call random fisherman who just knew there was something special about Him and dropped everything and ran off.

When we compare all 4 gospels, we find these men were already disciples of Yochanon (John the Immerser) and their relatives. They were those who were already students of Yeshua’s forerunner. Once their teacher said “Behold the Lamb of Elohim…” then they started following Him. Not instead of Yochanon. But because Yochanon said this was His mission - to prepare the Way. So these students of His followed Him till they found Him telling them this was what his ministry was all about, to prepare everything for Yeshua and then step back for Him to take the place of the Teacher.

These students ran off to tell their kin. And discussion was had and proof was presented and plans were made…and then these men set out to follow Yeshua when He called them.

The discipleship this entailed was a life. Going where your teacher went, sitting at His feet when He spoke, watching His every move, and practicing His craft.

This was the method for every function. A Master in a craft taking on a student or students to train them in The Way. Whether this was smithing or fishing, philosophy or poetry, the method always followed a similar pattern.

The expert in the field chose a person who showed promise in that skill. He took that person in and taught him everything He knew.

This is what it means when Yeshua says, “A student is not above his teacher and a servant is not above his master. It is enough for a student to be like his teacher and a servant to be like his master.”

We want to think this is like a modern student in the modern school system and a servant like a slave owned by another man. But that’s not what He’s talking about. Yeshua is saying the same thing twice in two ways. The servant and the student are the same.

He or she is an apprentice. Both student and servant. He or she does what the master says and learns what the master teaches. The apprentice learns technique and tendencies. Preferences and tricks. Shortcuts and means to make quality come forth. Every aspect that the master knows, he conveys to His student.

And this was the discipleship Yeshua taught to His 12.

So what was His craft?

What profession was He teaching them?

Carpentry?

No. We only think He was a carpenter because the Greek says His step-father Yoseph was a tekton which means artificer. And artificer is too vague and complex so the scribes rendered it as carpenter. Since a son usually took up the trade of his father, it’s thought Yeshua was this too.

But there’s little cause to believe He was a carpenter. And all His students stayed with their professions. Be they fishermen, tax collectors, or other careers we aren’t told about, Yeshua only demanded they be honest in their work not that they change their jobs.

So what were they students of then? And what was Yeshua a teacher of?

If they were His apprentices and He was their Master, what was He training them in?

This question is most often overlooked by churchianity.

Why? Because Chreasters need Him to just be teaching folks to have the warm fuzzies for one another. To introduce an idea of grace that didn’t exist yet. To show people that they are no longer saved by works but now by this new thing called faith.

But all that is hogwash.

Grace and faith weren’t new. And salvation was never a goal. And love is far from being cuddly fluff.

Yeshua taught the Torah.

He was a Torah Teacher. A Master thereof. THE Master infact. And what He taught His apprentices was nothing but the Torah.

And Yeshua never changes.

So He is still a Torah Teacher.

So what are we supposed to be doing then?

Chasing our own personal salvation? Trying to abandon what our Teacher taught us in favor of vague cheap grace, pitting a mushy sense of faith against deeds demanded by Scripture?

No.

Even today we are to be His apprentices.

He taught the Torah, by word and deed, and we as His apprentices in this profession are expected to be like our Master - To learn what He taught and to put it into practice, which is itself great grace and the living out is both faith and works…unless we don’t do it like He did it, then there’s no faith just works.

We’ve been far too long taught lies by our teachers because our teachers were not apprentices of the Master.

They learned to idolize Him. To worship Him and sing to Him, and pray to Him, and call on a version of a version of a version of a version of His Name.

They learned to reshape Him in their image and trained us to repeat this process…but they were not His students. They did not learn the subject He taught…and still teaches today unchanged and unchanging.

It is passed time we turn away from these groupies and superfans who have taught us all to faun over our faithful Teacher and how best to break all His instructions.

It is passed time we embrace our roll not as basic believers and saintly sycophants but as apprentices of our Master Yeshua, King Messiah, Torah Teacher and Living Torah of YHWH Almighty.

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