Teaching this Sunday: with Jesus at the beach

This Sunday I’m continuing our series ‘With Jesus’ and we’ll be looking together at John 21 and how the resurrected Jesus makes time for Peter , picks him up, restores him and sends him on his way with a new sense of purpose and mission.

John 21 is an awesome chapter – one of the most moving in the whole Bible. John writes it brilliantly and the small details of the charcoal fire, the net full of fish, the early morning dawn (resurrection and dawn go well together!), breakfast on the beach all paint a vivid picture that sets us up for Jesus’ interchange with Peter. What happens with Peter is what happens so often with us when Jesus gets our full attention, we’re not the same again.

I’ll be teaching on how Jesus deals with the marks we make with our lives – the bad marks and the good marks – and how we are all going to leave a mark, but the question is, whose mark is it going to be?