Isn't it a mind-blowing thought that God, the creator of all that is, wants to be our friend? Friendship means an intimacy and an understanding that few of us associate with God. For many, playing the servant to Jesus' master may sound like the easier option. Yet Jesus holds out the hand of friendship to all of us. Michael Perham tells the beautiful story of how the friendship between Jesus and Simon Peter developed. This book traces Peter's journey from the moment he answered Jesus' call to his role as a leader in the first Christian communities. Peter's story exemplifies our desire to become God's friends, and the struggles we might experience along the way. Full of fresh insights into the Scriptures, Jesus and Peter will help you to nurture a joyful and satisfying friendship with God. And what can be more rewarding in life than to become God's friend?

Michael Perham

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Dedication

Introduction

1. Follow me

2. A little faith

3. Take up your cross and follow

4. Servants no longer

5. Losing not a single one

6. For he was naked

7. Filled with the Holy Spirit

8. There is nothing unclean

9. A drowing man restored to life

10. You will stretch out your hands

Perham, Michael

This book considers what the New Testament has to say about Simon Peter, in particular how his relationship with Jesus develops. Peter has often been considered a model of discipleship, but Jesus and Peter looks at his friendship with Jesus and considers how it can help anyone to understand and develop their own friendship with God.

Michael Perham, Bishop of Gloucester, is well known for his many reflective and liturgical publications that have inspired, challenged, strengthened and nourished Christians and others on their spiritual journey. He is the author of the popular SPCK titles Glory in Our Midst, the New Handbook of Pastoral Liturgy, To Tell Afresh and The Hospitality of God.

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This delightful little book (of only 111 highly readable pages) extols the beauty of friendship with God, quoting on its first and last page the words of fourth century bishop, Gregory of Nyssa: "The one thing truly worthwhile is becoming God's friend". "It's a mind-blowing thought," writes Michael Perham, "that God, Creator of all that is, wants to be my friend." To deepen our understanding of that "wonderful truth", Perham explores the life of Simon Peter, from call to martyrdom, through following Jesus to betraying Jesus and finally restoration by Jesus and friendship with Jesus. "There is no single Simon Peter", says Perham, "but probably four Peters, perhaps even five." He looks at Peter through the differing eyes and insights of Biblical authors, Matthew / Mark, Luke / Acts, John, and the two epistles, 1 Peter and 2 Peter, traditionally ascribed to Peter (Perham does question that particular tradition). I found it enlightening, and especially appreciated what it said about the foot washing incident in John 13, and the nakedness of Peter in John 21. But then, the whole book is really rewarding, and I strongly recommend it to anyone who wishes to be a "friend" of God. And don't we all?

Jesus and Peter

Growing in Friendship with God

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