REFLECTION FROM WORDS FOR WORSHIP

For people of our time and culture it is very easy to not pay enough attention to how world and mind shattering Peter’s experience in this week’s text actually was. Like any Jew of his time Peter’s whole identity was invested in his Jewishness and his Jewishness was all about apartness, separation and distinction from every other culture and community on the face of the earth. Jews were Jews and the rest were Gentiles or in Hebrew goy, which was virtually synonymous with heathen. Peter’s vision must have been a spiritual and psychic experience that rocked him to his core. Yet, his experience of Jesus both before and after the resurrection had been so life changing God’s way of seeing the world.