Jesus made a point of telling Peter—you know, the guy who convinced himself he could walk on water and then sank, who tried to talk Jesus out of his Passion and was rebuked for channeling Satan, who took a sword to the ear of a Roman soldier even after Jesus had been preaching peace for three years, who pretended he didn’t even know Jesus when things went south, and who denied Jesus not only once but three times, you know, that Peter—he was just the sort of person Jesus wanted us to start his church (Matthew 16:18).
