Crazy from then on…

A man from the north had travelled south.  He was a fisherman, but he had left the boats of his family.  Why?  Well, to listen to a preacher.

This was no ordinary preacher.  He was… a little bit crazy.  He didn’t dress like everyone else.  He ate crazy food – locusts, and wild honey.  He was more like the prophets of the olden days.

You know who the preacher was, of course – John the Baptist.  He was a preacher with a crazy message:

You must change the way you live!  Turn your back on sin!  Be baptized!  The Messiah is coming!

And so, most likely, this northerner was baptized.  He listened to what John had to say about God, and the coming Messiah.

One day John saw a man passing by.  And John exclaimed,"Look!  The Lamb of God!"

The Lamb of God?  Could this be the Messiah?

The northerner went to meet Jesus.  Yes – Yes!  This is the Messiah!  Jesus is the Messiah!  I have to go tell my brother!

The man (whose name was Andrew) went to tell his brother Simon, who was also a fisherman.  — "We’ve found the Messiah!"

Really?

Andrew and Simon went together to find Jesus.

Finally, Simon was standing there in front of Jesus Himself.  Jesus, looking at him, said,"So you are Simon the son of John?  You shall be called Cephas." (Cephas in Greek is Peter)

From that moment on, from the moment he met Jesus, Peter’s life became … well … crazy!