People of the Passion: Peter, the Born Leader
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Luke 22:31 "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." Luke 22:61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times." 62 And he went outside and wept bitterly. John 21:17 The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. Perhaps no two people of the passion had more in common than the two disciples Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot. You could make a case that they were made of the same “stuff,” but they ended up in radically different ways. As we observe Peter today, we see that he was a born leader w