Love Christ

The last part of this series, we started out looking at the very first call on Peter’s life, asking ourselves the question, “What are you waiting for?”  I want to tell y’all a story that I think really fits well with Peter’s. When I was in middle school, I put a lot of my identity in people and friendships. I thought that the amount of friends that I had and the quality of our friendships defined who I was as a person. There was a point at the end of middle school and the start of high school, where everything started to change. Suddenly, the friends that I had began to pull away. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I slowly started to distance myself from the people that I did have. When I pulled away from other people, I also pulled away from God. There was a point when I decided that I needed something more. When I first started noticing people pulling away, I pulled away from God too. I thought that if everyone else was leaving, why wouldn’t He? I tried so hard to go right ...

This new series is all about waiting. I want to ask you a few questions to keep in your mind. What is a goal or dream that you are chasing after? What is a job or title that you are striving towards? What is something that you are waiting for? Throughout this series, I want to focus on the life of Peter. Peter is one of Jesus’s 12 disciples. He is known for being really stubborn, but at the same time, Peter is known for having great faith. Peter was a fisherman, that is what he did to live. Peter fished in a boat with his brother Andrew. One day when they were fishing, they saw a man across the lake (this man was Jesus). He called out to them saying, "have you caught anything?" They said, "no we haven’t." Jesus said to them, "cast your net on the other side of the boat." So, they did, but something amazing happened. When they pulled their net back up, the net was so full of fish, it began to break. Immediately, Peter said, "you are the Messiah, I ...