Is It Tantamount?

this question is explicitly vague for a reason. i want to draw your attention to a critical issue in the emergent Christian generation. i pose this question to myself as well. "is it tantamount?" being that the gospel is conveyed by speach, and speach by words, and words from truth, and truth from God, it is befitting that the conveyance of the gospel is tantamount to our own confession. if someone is to relay the gospel in order that it proves tantamount, then one must pursue authenticity to that end.

there are several aspects of authenticity regarding the administration of the gospel in Scripture, yet none include pursuit of wealth, security, insurance, yuppiness, fashion, etc, and in some instances Jesus only allows his disciples to do so with not but a minimal wardrobe; no money nor knapsack; and they were only permitted to accessorize themeslves with a signular (Luke 10:1-12). these men, who work hard for a living to earn their honest pay as nothing but common fishermen, to be asked to do this is like asking asking a butterfly to hold your boxing gloves.

this same group of men (due to the inherent hunger which plagues everyman) couldn't stand the thought of forfeiting their already measly supper of five loaves of bread and two fish (can't you just see the nervous expression on their faces, when Jesus asks them what they've got--i mean it's already thirteen that "have to eat", but the mention of five thousand...) to five thousand people just a short time before (Luke 9:12-14). now Jesus asks for them to commit to travel the country with nothing prepared to eat on the voyage (Luke 10:4). this demonstrates a kind of change that occured. we aren't told where each of the disciple teams ventured, we are told what they took with them; not where but how. although there are many other aspects of authenticity regarding the administration of the gospel in Scripture, i like this one, because these men are depicted with only one desire, one passion, one purpose, executing the quintessential nature of the gospel in their sharing of it...