What do you do for a living?

What if you had the opportunity to step back in time and meet the Jesus of the gospels and to ask him, "What do you do for a living?" What would he tell you? What kind of higher education does a Saviour need? What kind of social status does the job of Son of God carry? How much does a Messiah make annually? What is the day-to-day routine for a Christ? Although these titles are the theological categories we normally use to define Jesus, none of them were his actual vocation.

The actual vocation of Yeshua was Rabbi. He was a simple Galilean Rabbi with a large and devoted following. Knowing this alone tells us a great deal about who Rabbi Jesus is.

In those days, the term Rabbi had not yet come to exclusively mean a teacher ordained through formal Rabbincal institution. Rather Rabbi was simply a term of respect for a great teacher. It is in this context that we must try to understand Rabbi Yeshua.