A Sermon To Prepare The Congregation For The Service Of Feetwashing And The Love Feast

I like it whenever Peter appears in a New Testament story. He's going to do something. He's going to say something. He will not be content to remain a passive spectator.

When Jesus asks the question, "Who do people say that I am?" I can picture the other apostles hemming and hawing and looking at the ground, sort of like school children who do not want to be the one who answers the question for the teacher. Everyone is afraid it is a trick question, and no one wants to get the wrong answer.

Not Peter. "You're the Messiah!" he says. Right answer! Then, when Jesus tells his apostles he will die, Peter is the one who pipes up and says, "Stop talking like that!" The others hold back. So of course Peter ge…