Comments on: Fish for Breakfast: What Jesus Did With a Disgraced Leader http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/02/fish-for-breakfast-what-jesus-did-with-a-disgraced-leader/ Create your future. Solve problems. Impact eternity. Live - really live - today. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Leading and Loving “Bent Nail” People | LifeVesting http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/02/fish-for-breakfast-what-jesus-did-with-a-disgraced-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-2803 Leading and Loving “Bent Nail” People | LifeVesting Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:26:06 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2320#comment-2803 [...] do the same.  I see Jesus showing kindness and sympathy to bent-up Peter as they were having fish for breakfast.  I don’t see Jesus excusing Peter to get two years of therapy while the mission of the early [...] [...] do the same.  I see Jesus showing kindness and sympathy to bent-up Peter as they were having fish for breakfast.  I don’t see Jesus excusing Peter to get two years of therapy while the mission of the early [...]

]]> By: Andy Wood http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/02/fish-for-breakfast-what-jesus-did-with-a-disgraced-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-2719 Andy Wood Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:38 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2320#comment-2719 Bryce, I have learned in pretty dramatic fashion that when I think I'm completely useless to the Kingdom of God, He is almost ready to do something powerful through me. With few exceptions, the men and women used the most in the Bible were deeply flawed screwups. And you're so right - it IS completely in God's hands... both the calling and the timing of its fulfillment. It took 50 days for Peter to see it, and 40 years for Moses. Thanks for sharing and encouraging. Bryce,

I have learned in pretty dramatic fashion that when I think I’m completely useless to the Kingdom of God, He is almost ready to do something powerful through me. With few exceptions, the men and women used the most in the Bible were deeply flawed screwups. And you’re so right – it IS completely in God’s hands… both the calling and the timing of its fulfillment. It took 50 days for Peter to see it, and 40 years for Moses.

Thanks for sharing and encouraging.

]]> By: Bryce N. http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/02/fish-for-breakfast-what-jesus-did-with-a-disgraced-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-2718 Bryce N. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:06:19 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2320#comment-2718 Andy, thank you for this post. I really screwed up in a (volunteer) ministry position about a year and a half ago,(long story short: I stepped down from leadership and stopped attending that church). The constant question that lingered with me was, "Does this disqualify me?", "Maybe I shouldn't be in ministry," "Can God still use me?" Although now I recognize that those thoughts were completely the enemy creeping in and laying a guilt trip on me, I finally learned that it is completely in God's hands as to whether God uses us or not. So this phrase of yours resonates with me: "Peter was still called to lead, and the idea of disqualification is a human invention." Thanks again for this reminder. Andy, thank you for this post.
I really screwed up in a (volunteer) ministry position about a year and a half ago,(long story short: I stepped down from leadership and stopped attending that church). The constant question that lingered with me was, “Does this disqualify me?”, “Maybe I shouldn’t be in ministry,” “Can God still use me?” Although now I recognize that those thoughts were completely the enemy creeping in and laying a guilt trip on me, I finally learned that it is completely in God’s hands as to whether God uses us or not. So this phrase of yours resonates with me: “Peter was still called to lead, and the idea of disqualification is a human invention.”
Thanks again for this reminder.

]]> By: Eric Chaffin http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/02/fish-for-breakfast-what-jesus-did-with-a-disgraced-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-2715 Eric Chaffin Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:49:26 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2320#comment-2715 It is sad that we, both individually as believers and corporately as the church, have forgotten to employ Jesus' method of restoration. So many of us, whether openly or in secret, have betrayed our Redeemer and need to have that special "breakfast with Jesus," to be reminded that God doesn't make any junk, and that His plans to use us remain, even in the wake of disaster. It is sad that we, both individually as believers and corporately as the church, have forgotten to employ Jesus’ method of restoration. So many of us, whether openly or in secret, have betrayed our Redeemer and need to have that special “breakfast with Jesus,” to be reminded that God doesn’t make any junk, and that His plans to use us remain, even in the wake of disaster.

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