These were his instructions: take nothing for the journey except a staff — no bread, no bag, no money in your belts — the travel instructions are a theology of dependence: the disciples go with minimal resources, trusting that the communities they enter will provide for them. The staff only — no provisions, no emergency supplies, no financial security. The minimalist travel is not asceticism for its own sake but dependence on God's provision through hospitable communities. The same God who provided manna in the wilderness provides through willing households in the Galilean towns.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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