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Runner or Rooster
By daniel | March 18, 2008
Running or just warming to the sound of the rooster? Was Peter himself the “rock” on which the Lord said He would build His church? Or was the word of faith spoken by Peter that “rock.” However we take Jesus’ meaning, it is for certain that the Peter at the charcoal fire in the high priest’s courtyard, and the Peter running to see the empty tomb represent two sides of a watershed.
In the courtyard Peter denied the “Truth, the Life and the Way” three times before he heard the dread rooster. How blithely and uncaringly we deny knowing Jesus simply because we can’t crank up the mood. Chasing John to the tomb, Peter let hope run wild. And no rooster this time, but cast-off grave clothes. Peter gave everything he had from then on to see that however he took Jesus’ meaning of “rock,” it forever meant his total abandonment to the One he had once denied.
Maybe we’d best give up all rights to ownership of the “correct” interpretation of the “rock” enigma and be the Church running with abandon to catch up to Jesus. The running church; not the rooster church.
“on earth as it is in heaven”
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April 24th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Very cool thought, D. Thanks for writing it.