Nathanael Rowe

Tonight we had our first community dinner put on by the youth.  It was actually pretty awesome.  We had a lot of people from all different places come and eat dinner with us.  We made some pretty simple, yet delicious spaghetti, and just hung out and ate with people.  The plan is to do that the first Wednesday of every month.

We had a few folks show up after we had already put some of the food away, one of which was of course Peter.  So we microwaved him up a couple of burritos, and gave him a plate of food too.  After we gave him some food, Matt one of my favorite skatesiders was telling me about Peter and how we shouldn’t help him cause he is mean and he will just waste what we give him anyway.  It was a great opportunity to sit Matt down and tell him what I believe to be one of the most important stories Jesus ever told.  I told him the story of the Sheep and the Goats found in Matthew 25, and then I asked him, “Matt, who do you think is the least of these in this neighborhood?”

He didn’t have to waste a second to answer, “Peter” he said.

“I think you are right Matt, and I think at the end of our lives Jesus is going to judge us on how we treated Peter.” I told him.

“But I’m nice to people who smell good, Peter is just messed up and he says crazy things about hurting people, and he is just gross.”

“Yes he is Matt, but I think when you stand before God, he is going to ask you about how you treated Peter, and he is going to count whatever you did to him as if it you had done it to Jesus himself.”

I was so stoked that God used the community dinner, and Peter, to teach a much more alive Bible lesson than I ever could have done in a sunday school room.