Sharing is Caring

  “Let us start rebuilding.” (1)     [Nehemiah 2:11-16]     Gordon Macdonald's book “Rebuilding Your Broken World” tells us what kind of people God is using to expand His kingdom.   He is none other than people like Simon Peter, who failed God.   God uses them as His instruments in His kingdom expansion ministry.   Pastor MacDonald said three important things that happened in the “Sea of Tiberias” (Jn.21:1), centering on the words of John chapter 21:   (1)    Jesus came into Peter's world.   The rebuilder Jesus knew that Peter was too wounded to start on his own.   In other words, after Jesus died on the cross, Jesus appeared to Peter (and the other disciples), who had returned to his old job as a fisherman in disappointment and discouragement, and asked, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” (v. 5).   And when Jesus said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some” (v. 6), Pe...