Jesus could have chosen the elite of His day to accomplish His mission.
However, He used simple fishermen.
These men were considered uneducated, lacking "social status", wealth or worldly distinction of any kind. Yet, these "simple" men were the ones the Lord selected to build the Kingdom of God.
When the children of Israel were slaves in Egypt, God didn't send an army to deliver them. He sent a single man. But a single man of God was shown to be greater than the most powerful kingdom on Earth.
Throughout the Bible, we read of the Lord choosing and using the weak things of the world to confound and shame the wise and powerful.
God seems to love revealing His awesome power through humble vessels, so that no...