Upon This Flawed Rock I Will Build My Church: A tribute to Peter

In this sermon tries to take Peter back from the church and let us see a man of faith we can identify with. "St Peter of course was a fisherman. And I, as you would expect, bring to his stories both my respect and my reservations. I respect his endurance, his skill, his passion, and the patience of his family and friends. My reservation is that passion, talents, and the presumptions that often accompany them can lead to much good but also can harm. They can lead to an inflated self-importance and the pushing of others into obscurity. This was Peter’s shadow side, to use that Jungian phrase, and a side that the New Testament was not shy in revealing." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=447&id=869.