10th May April 2011

10^th May April 2011

John 17:9-19 – Jesus Prays for His Disciples

• “ Repairing the World ”
• Jesus turns from praying for Himself to praying for His friends . . . His disciples.
• What strikes me most about this prayer is the sense of flow of everything going through Him.
• The whole prayer speaks of Him being a conduit, a connector of things from the Father to His disciples;
• They were given by the Father to Jesus who gives them back to Him.
• The Father gave Jesus the Word and He has passed it onto them.
• The world hated ne because of the word and know it hates them because He passed the Word onto them from the Father.
• Jesus then begins to get specific. What He says in such a short prayer should catch my attention; whatever He prays must be a priority to Him.
• He prays in line with ‘tikkun-ha’olam’: repairing the world.
• His religion saw this as vital.
• All Jews grow up with a sense that they are commissioned by God to repair the world.
• It is interesting that only one 24th of 1% of the world’s population are Jews.
• It is astounding therefore that 20%, a 5th of all Nobel prize winners in the last 100 years were Jewish!
• Jesus prays a prayer about flow.
• He asks the Father to protect and keep His disciples, not to remove them but to leave them in the world as salt and light to repair it.
• We the as leaders, whether parents or pastors, must be challenged by this.
• What is it exactly that we are to invest our time in challenging our disciples to do?
• Not repair the church, repair a building, not repair an organization.
• But repair the world!
• Such a challenge today – what is the fruit of my leadership?