Peter's Big Preacher

The main reason people reject the Christian gospel is their denial of their sin. If one does not realize our problem with sin, the Christian gospel is meaningless to them. If you believe you are a perfect person, then you do not need Christ's sacrifice and forgiveness. As previously mentioned, most people think that they are good people. Sure, they have done some things wrong, but no one is perfect.

transmitted in his encyclical. The church has always been on behalf of the poor. For that reason

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past” written by Tyron Edwards. Sometimes changing your behavior is the only way to make up for a past, because you learn what are right actions, and what are wrong actions.

The precious Savior, Jesus Christ, once promised, “I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” The children of Christ are called to endure in a life fulfilled with salvation, moral ethics, and truth. In ancient literary stories, the characters Sir Gawain and King Arthur maintained bold lives and portrayed themselves in the Catholic teachings in their achievements and battles. One of the countless similarities that Sir Gawain and King Arthur had with the Messiah was that they acquired faithful followers that accompanied their journeys. These particular characters connect with Jesus Christ and his devoted actions by means of salvation, moral ethics, and truth.

came to him fulfilling his mission to spread christianity; he never gave up, day by day. Even

He was a hospitable, respectful person. He wanted to be baptized and received into the church.

First Unfair, when reading this book, Benforado blames the people for the system being flawed. When talking about dishonesty “…when our actions are at odds with our positive self-image: (we) trick ourselves into thinking we’re not

Preachers are supposed to be someone you look up to. They are supposed to guide you and lead you on the right path to heaven. If your preacher is joining the KKK or raping little girls, you would start to wonder if what he was teaching is the teaching of God. Also he knows that suicide is an unforgivable sin, but he commits suicide to run away from his problems.

The law tells Christians that God is good. His creation at the beginning of humanity is good, but they destroyed it with free will (Lewis, 1996). It is the factor that contributes to the corruption of the world and is also the unique thing that can make unlimited love and miracle, even after many times of humanity’s disloyalty. For this reason, the corruption of the world is not God’s mistake, he did not create the evil and bad things, but human did it by their own decisions (Dante, 2012). Nonetheless, God still tried to pursue us with his only son, Jesus Christ, because he always believed that humanity could change if they had a role model and the guide that show them the way to live properly.

Nancy Lammers suggests that preachers are more like gymnasts on a high bar, swinging back and forth between text and today throughout the week. The preacher studies the ancient text, all the while mindful of what is going on in the community and the larger world, all the while engaging in ancient text; back and forth our thoughts race throughout the week. ”(Graves, pg 644) It might be better to fully understand the text if you study it in smaller increments and relate it to today also in smaller increments. Graves is effective in illustrating this point by arguing with common sense.

Those who often deserve punishment go unpunished, and yet those who are innocent and “good men” often are. As a “bad man” himself, the “Misfit” understands that he should be punished for his crimes, yet he has not been punished, at least not on par with his crimes. He seems to almost be testing God; his life of “meanness” is ostensibly a call for punishment, in order to prove or disprove the existence of a God. He clearly believes or, at least wants to believe, that there is no God watching over the innocent, and his odious crimes are ironically, the way to prove that there is no God. The lone way to reestablish his confidence in Christianity, in the mind of the “Misfit” is for God to punish him. But, it is God’s continued lack of fairness that has caused him to doubt and reject faith. At one point, he may have been a man of God, but his observance of life’s injustice led him astray. He was a “gospel singer for a while” suggesting that he was once a believer, but he has fallen from this

In other words, God warns those who are not truly converted in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “The

endure to the end of their Christian life. Finally, he taught that Jesus died only for the

Peter baptized the Roman pagan Cornelius and at the council of Jerusalem he gave his support to preaching to gentiles. He was imprisoned by King Herod Agrippa and escaped with the help of an angel. Peter died in Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. It is said that Peter was crucified on the Vatican Hill upside down because her declared himself

Sometimes we can get the wrong idea of what the gospel is. Many times we get confused by thinking that the gospel is a list of steps, and that once you convince someone to follow along with a prayer he is saved. It does not mean anything if that person does not believe in God and he only blindly followed along. Accepting Christ is a matter of the heart.