Jesus Was Smart

I started my McJob a couple of days ago, and to keep it simple, let's just say that the whole ordeal is anything but spectacular. It's not bad; it's just very mundane. On my first day, I ended training my trainer on certain company policies, even though I've not worked in a McStore for over three years, and I also ended up managing my manager for a while too. With my "training" over in about 20 minutes, I was thrown to the wolves, expected to remember everything that my trainer disjointedly told me about the restaurant--where things were, what I was kind of responsible for, etc. Good thing I've been previously trained by Western Canada's foremost manager in operations and procedures (although that was over 7 years previous to this job).

Yeah, the McJob goes. The thing I've learned most so far, though, is just how brilliant Jesus was while here on earth. As a teacher/trainer, he decided to focus on a small group of people and he heavily invested into them, teaching them thoroughly and testing their understanding throughout. Instead of lecturing to the masses for the majority of his ministry, Jesus used the bulk of his time to form the lives and minds of a dozen guys: brilliant.

Why brilliant? Well, because sufficiently training individuals in the way they should go will allow those individuals to go on and sufficiently impart their training to others. It's an expansive model of instruction, allowing a small group of individuals to change the world in a matter of generations. This is precisely what happened.

How come, though? Well, since the Lord invested most of his energy on the few, these guys got drenched in the understanding of Christ & his ministry/goals. Because of this, the disciples could effectively spread the teachings of Jesus. Had Christ focussed more on the masses, many would have been exposed to his ministry & many would have received partial knowledge, but the heart of the ministry would have been lost due to the ineffectiveness of understanding as a result of the distant relationship between learner and Teacher. Therefore, since the disciples were drenched in Christ's teachings & ministry, they were given the capacity to follow suit & drench others in Christ's teachings & ministry as well. As long as the heavy, repeated exposure to His teachings prevailed, disciples could further breed more disciples & the process could continue, essentially growing at an exponential rate while still retaining an extremely high level of the message's integrity throughout disseminational generations. Perhaps the church's shift away from a discipleship model & towards a more lectural approach may explain the watering-down of Christianity and the growth of factions et the like?

The same model works brilliantly for management procedures--the checking & testing of what's been taught in order to ensure that operations/procedures retain their initial integrity. By starting off with a few, well-saturated individuals who know what's going on extremely well, these few can not only oversee others but they can also keep each other accountable as they monitor the teaching and undertaking of any operation (in this case, the Christian ministry). Such a model is simple, cost-effective, self-replicating and highly resistant to procedural aberration. Jesus = genius. Chalk another one up to the all-knowing & all-wise God.