Get Behind me Satan! Yikes....Not exactly words we'd use to make friends and influence people! But Jesus wasn't trying to win a popularity contest. He was here to spread the Truth - and the truth is always difficult to hear - especially for Peter who had just been told that he was the Rock on which Christ was going to build his church.....And then, in true Peter fashion, he became the stumbling block......You just gotta love the guy! Jesus surely did...He would fall and then Jesus would pick him up, brush him off, and set him back on course.In this morning's sermon, Margaret McGee brought this message home to us in new ways. Is not God calling us to be ourselves? not some perfect role model or saint, just ourselves as God created us to be. Jesus spoke truth and Margaret wondered if perhaps Peter wasn't chagrined by Jesus' seemingly harsh response to his concern for His future but instead was empowered and encouraged by it!
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