This is a portion out of Mentoring for Mission by Krallman.
I encourage you to grab your Bible right now if you can or later tonight and look up each verse. Watch for the word “with”. Jesus is wanting to change us, but if we do not spend time with Him in His Word, then we are trying to change ourselves.
The Gospels mention ‘being with Jesus’ not just in connection with certain activities which the disciples undertook together with their Master (e.g. Matt 26:20.36, Mk 3:7, 8:10, 11:11, Lk 6:17, 7:11, 8:1, 9:18, Jn 3:22, 6:3, 11:54, 18:1.2). Moreover it appears that the same terminology was used as a synonym for being a disciple of Jesus (e.g. Matt 26:69.71, Mk 16:10, Jn 18:26) and that the two-sided with-ness existing between the Master and his disciples was referred to as an equivalent for Jesus’ technique of training the Twelve (Mk 3:14; cf. also Lk 22:28, 24:44, Jn 7:33, 13:33, 14:9.25, 16:4, 17:12).
