'I will make you fishers of men
I will make you fishers of men
"Come, follow Me — and I will make you fishers of men ." Matthew 4:19
We cannot become "fishers of men" just as we become carpenters or merchants or physicians. It is not one of the trades or professions to be taken up and learned as trades and professions are.
Colleges and theological seminaries cannot make men "fishers of men."
They may teach them how to think, how to write, how to speak; they can furnish them with knowledge of many kinds, can teach them systems of theology, and make them exegetes, logicians, rhetoricians, orators.
But these things do not make men "fishers of men." These requirements may be helpful to them in their spiritual work, if they are consecrated to Christ.
But the point to be remembered is, that Christ alone can make anyone truly a "fisher of men."