The disciples

I find it rather interesting that the characters of the disciples ranges. These are twelve men from differing walks of life who have come together and now choose to completely devote themselves to following Christ. I think that this has a lot to say about the major diversity of Christianity. Christ did not choose to make the "religious leaders of the future" an upper crust part of society. He chose those who could sustain themselves and he chose those who were of the people. You almost couldn't find more common than basic fishermen. These twelve men truly had an amazing amount of character to follow Him when many others abandoned Him. I think we forget that much of the time that we read about, Christ had more than twelve men following him. He had crowds of people following Him and yet it was these twelve that he pulled out of anonymity and asked them to not only follow Him but to preach and do other things in His name.