I have the great pleasure of facilitating every week a Bible discussion group with several high school students. We've been discussing the Gospel of John this past year, and we finally finished tonight. We enjoyed the humorous scene John writes about in this last chapter. The great apostle John can't help himself when it comes to embarrassing his fellow inner circle apostle; the denial of Christ, his slowness in getting to the empty tomb, and this event in the last chapter. John 21:7 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea. What's the joke? Well John is the first to realize that Jesus is on the beach, #humblebrag, but then Peter puts ON his coat before jumping out of the boat? I've seen some academic ink spilled trying to explain this weird behavior on the part of this fisherman ( good one ...
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So glad to have discovered your "UmBlog" by clicking on your profile from the comment you left on our "M Blog". You have several interesting posts, especially the church planting articles. I love the quote on the YWAM CP Coaches site by Curtis Sergeant about "Never fear making mistakes" I even posted an entry on the subject here.
Are you a church planter? From the way you write about the subject sounds like you are at least a good candidate for being one!
Keep up the good work on the blog.