While Peter, and Peter alone, was the rock upon which Jesus build his church, we can all be rocks for some, to guide them to Jesus and sustain them in their life in Christ. Jesus is telling us, "I am counting on you."

In our life in the Body of Christ, we have choices to make regarding our commitment to the community of the church and our commitments to other people and organizations. I've often heard people lament that people and organizations keep scheduling activities on Sundays. "Why do they schedule things on Sunday mornings?" People ask.

We're in a majority Christian city, in a majority Christian state, in a majority Christian world. If Christians didn't keep going to non-church activities on Sunday mornings, "they" would stop scheduling things on Sunday mornings. We have choices to make.

We should consider that we let down people who are depending on us in the Body of Christ when we choose not to show up.

We should also not sequester ourselves from the world in order always to be at church. Rather, when we choose to be elsewhere, we should do so intentionally, purposefully, as disciples of Jesus...not simply skipping out on our Christian community, but being part of other communities as ambassadors of Jesus, as rocks upon whom Jesus is counting.