{"id":1532,"date":"2014-05-12T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2014-05-14T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:28:33","slug":"follow-me-and-i-will-make-you-fishers-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Follow Me, and I Will Make You Fishers of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #373737;\">In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His life each week. Scrooge isn\u2019t the only one who can\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"Vision Climb\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=55\" target=\"_blank\">make a change for the better<\/a>. I can and you can. Elder Richard G. Scott promised, \u201cThe best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life\u201d (<a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"A Personal Study Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=238\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe Lives! All Glory to His Name!\u201d<\/a>). Please join me and invite your family and friends to join us in keeping Christmas all the year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T7xNnBHM5Wg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.\u00a0<\/em><em>And they straightway left\u00a0<span class=\"clarityWord\">their<\/span>\u00a0nets, and followed him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James\u00a0<span class=\"clarityWord\">the son<\/span>\u00a0of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.\u00a0<\/em><em>And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/matt\/4.18-22\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 4:18-22<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>\u0017What do you need to cast off from your life so you can follow Jesus more fully?<\/li>\n<li>What will you do today to follow Jesus?<\/li>\n<li>What will you do today to assist in the Lord&#8217;s work of salvation and become a &#8220;fisher of men&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/luke\/5.1-11\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 5:1-11<\/a> also recounts this <a title=\"The Call of Duty\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1421\" target=\"_blank\">call of duty<\/a>. What additional insights do you have after reading Luke&#8217;s version?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a title=\"New Testament\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=673\">here<\/a>\u00a0for additional New Testament posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4,11,16,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choice-accountability","category-climb","category-jesus-christ","category-mission","category-new-testament","category-obedience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}