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If you ask most people "How many disciples did Jesus have?", they will fire back quickly "12 of course". How many do "you" say he had? Was it: 12?, 11?, (minus Judas) 70?, more than 70? or Too many to count!

The correct answers, believe it or not are: "More than Seventy" and "Too many to count". Surprised? According to scripture, Jesus had a multutude of disciples.

Luke 6:17 - Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

Could seventy constitute a large crowd? Yes, it could, but, the scriptures indicate that Jesus had even more than that!

Luke 10:1 Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.

If there were seventy "others", then we can assume that there are more besides the others. Jesus commanded his disciples to "Go and make more disciples" Strange how when someone becomes a believer, we call them a "Christian", but back then, they were called disciples. To be a disciple should be the goal.

John 4:1 - Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Our purpose is not to simply be a believer and attend church once a week. Jesus said: "Go and make disciples". Once a disciple is made, the command then falls to him to go and make disciples. In the true order of things, there should, by now, be more disciples than we could count.

Of course, that's assuming that we structure our churches the way Jesus intended. Hmmmmm