When Jesus walked along the Sea of Galilee and said “follow me” to a group of fishermen, he was not making a casual invitation. He was speaking the language of a rabbi calling a talmid.
In this teaching, Glenn Bleakney takes you back to first-century Israel to recover the lost world of rabbinic discipleship. You will learn about the three tiers of Jewish education, the meaning of a rabbi’s yoke, and the powerful blessing pronounced over a devoted disciple: may you be covered in the dust of your rabbi.
Glenn argues that the contemporary church has confused content with formation, consumption with discipleship, and showing up with growing up. The answer is not more information. The answer is proximity.
Whether you are a pastor, a ministry leader, or a believer hungry to go deeper, this teaching will reframe what it means to follow Jesus and to reproduce that following in others.
Go and make talmidim. Be like Jesus. Let others follow in your dust.
