Simon, Who Is Called Peter

Life as One of the Apostles

Mackenzie Mulligan

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781625645357
  9781498269346
• eBook ISBN:
  9781630873912
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

When we read the Bible as a parable, as a series of object lessons told merely to prove a point, we miss something. When we treat the people within the Bible as mere "characters" in a story, we lose something incredibly important. Object lessons are clean and simple. People, on the other hand, are messy and complicated. When we look at the life of Simon Peter, we see one of the messiest people in the entire New Testament. Peter walked on water and sank into the waves. He proclaimed who Jesus was and completely missed the point. He pledged his undying devotion to Christ, and even drew a sword in defense of his Lord, and then he abandoned Jesus and denied him three times. Peter is also the rock on which Christ would build his church--the same church of which Paul says we are a part. So come. Walk with Peter. Fish with him. Follow a strange rabbi, though it might cost you everything. Walk on water, though you might sink. Go to Jerusalem, though death awaits you. Stand with Peter as God uses him to build his church, and watch that church grow.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: We Were Only Fishermen
• Chapter 2: Worshipping on the Lake
• Chapter 3: Who Is Jesus?
• Chapter 4: Jerusalem, and What Happened There
• Chapter 5: Where I Am Going, You Cannot Follow
• Chapter 6: I Will Die with You!
• Chapter 7: Cowardice in the Morning Light
• Chapter 8: To Whom Shall We Go?
• Chapter 9: The Lord has Risen Indeed!
• Chapter 10: Do You Love Me?
• Chapter 11: Then Feed My Sheep
• Chapter 12: What the Lord Has Called “Clean”
• Chapter 13: Not Good Enough
• Chapter 14: Peter
• Epilogue: If a Rock Could Talk
• Bibliography