Show Don't Tell: Luke 6:12-16

Instead of saying "Jesus chose the twelve apostles," spend the night on the mountain. One of those days Jesus goes out to a mountainside to pray—and spends the night praying to God. All night. When morning comes, he calls his disciples to him and chooses twelve of them, whom he also designates apostles: Simon (whom he names Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who becomes a traitor. An all-night prayer meeting precedes the most important personnel decision in history. Not a committee meeting, not interviews—a night on a mountain talking to his Father. Then the choosing. One of those chosen will betray him; the rest will turn the world upside down.