After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to hundreds of people. Encounters that completely changed their lives. This encounters kicked off the Jesus movement.
And these encounters were so important because of the calling of the apostles in the coming future as leaders of the church and sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria and the rest of the world. Quite like the season we find ourselves in. With a coming future that is different from what any of us have known or would have expected as the year started, we are called to take our place in the story of the Kingdom to be ready for what God is inviting into the next few months and years.
This Sunday, we talk about Jesus’ appearance to Peter who is struggling struggling with shame and feeling like he has let Jesus down. Jesus appears to him to take away the shame, restore him and remind him of his call. And of course all this is done over a meal
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