We are all Peter.

That's what I've established in this three-part series on the restoration of Peter from John 21, 15, to 19.

I introduced that last time in part two, where I said to you, as the listener or

the viewer, that when we are reading about the narrative of Peter, in particular, with regard to

Peter's restoration after his threefold denial of Christ and John 18, we need to understand that

in glimpsing Peter's journey, we're not above Peter,

we're not better than Peter. We may not commit his specific sins. Of course, we won't in direct

historical terms, but we have our own sins. And so we need to realize that part of what the biblical

authors, the gospel authors are doing as they present to us the lives

of the disciples and the apostles with all their ups and downs, all their trials and struggles,

is I believe they are helping us understand what lived Christianity looks like on a day-by-day basis.

So I've made the case in this three-part series and even beyond

on this podcast and prior episodes that we're not reading the Bible to critique biblical characters.

Of course, we see their sin. Of course, we identify their sin and learn from it and study it and all

those sorts of things. But we are not scholars up on the zenith of earth as we do so.

We're actually studying the sin of biblical figures so that we can understand our own sin and so that

by the power of God working in us, we can overcome our sin. In this episode, part three of the

restoration of Peter, I want us to understand that what

we need we have in Jesus. And so I'm going to offer five reflections on the restoration of Peter

and how it shapes our own ongoing discipleship with Jesus Christ. We are all Peter, but Jesus is a great Savior. And

Jesus loved Peter. That's a huge part of what you and I need to understand in how Jesus engages Peter.

Jesus doesn't engage Peter the way a lot of us would have engaged Peter by torching Peter,

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