While sightseeing in Boston last fall, I entered the narthex of a church building. Much to my surprise I discovered a gallery of marble busts, images of some of history's great leaders. Socrates and Aristotle were there. So was Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Shakespeare, Confucius, Moses, Mohammed, and Christ. I personally found the display troubling, mainly because Jesus was just one of the crowd. And that just isn't historically or theologically accurate! For you see, Christ is so unique as to be incomparable!

In the text, Jesus asked the question, "Who do you say that I am?" Was he just another on of the crowd? Did his disciples have any idea of who Christ was? Peter, of course, responded, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." While it's pretty clear that Pet…