Have a go at it

Like Rush Limbaugh saying, "I'd rather listen... you talk."

Like Urban Meyer saying, "I'm not going to try to influence the recruits."

Like me saying, "Did I remember to pick up hair gel?"

These are examples of things you don't naturally hear... and that is how we should see Peter's confession of Christ.

When Peter said to Jesus:

"You are the Christ the Son of the Living God"

... he was going against everything he had known... "It was the last thing in the world Peter would have been 'programmed' to say by birth or environment." Sinclair Ferguson

* see also Matthew 16 and Luke 9