Rethinking Scripture Podcast - 

Episode 27: The Restoration of Peter - Pt. 2 (John 21)

December 16, 2021 - Host: Dr. Gregory Hall 

At the end of John’s gospel there’s a funny little sentence that suggests that the world could not contain the books that could be written about the many other things which Jesus did. I’ve always taken that as a bit of an exaggeration… but what if its not? What If we’ve misunderstood what John was trying to say?

John chapter 21 is all about restoration. The disciples limped their way through events in the garden of Gethsemane and then disbursed and deflected their connection with Jesus through the rest of that weekend. This would have left all of them, but especially Peter, with some traumatic wounds that needed to be healed. That’s what we see Jesus doing here… healing the broken hearted. In this episode, we welcome Dr. Warren Gage to the podcast to help us unpack the restoration of the disciples.

Referenced Resources:

• https://watermarkgospel.com - Changing the way the world reads the Bible. Learn to see Jesus in every story. The Bible contains a total of sixty-six books, written in multiple languages. An estimated 40 major authors and many other minor authors contributed to the Scriptures over the course of many centuries. Knowing this, we wouldn’t normally expect to find a compositional unity to the Bible.
• DonLaw.com - Don Law is a friend of Dr. Gage and has collected the audio of several of Dr. Gage's classes. This from the website... "The MP3 files from Warren's series on Luke and Act are available at donlaw.net/lukeacts. The MP3 files from Warren's series on Isaiah are available atdonlaw.net/isaiah. The MP3 files for the Christian Vocation Bible Application class are at donlaw.net/vocation. The series on the Gospel of John are at - you guessed it - donlaw.net/john."
• Gage, Warren Austin. The Heavenly Banquet. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Warren A. Gage, 2001. - The Heavenly Banquet provides a biblical theology of the New Testament in the form of an imagined dialogue in heaven. It is loosely conceived as a sequel to Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. In it, Christian enters the Celestial City and has a celebratory supper with the seven principal authors of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Apollos (Hebrews), and Peter. Each of them relates the argument of their individual theologies, focusing on the love of Jesus as they each uniquely understood it.

Show Music:

• Intro/Outro - "Growth" by Armani Delos Santos
• Transition Music - produced by Jacob A. Hall

Podcast Website:

• RethinkingScripture.com
• The John Study Resources: https://rethinkingscripture.com/john-study-resources/ 
• John 21 Teaching Video - https://rethinkingscripture.com/the-john-study-videos/
• Sister site: RethinkingRest.com

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