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bookslover · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2007, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by I follow Jesus

My Church (in Sunday School is doing a line by line study of 1st and 2nd Peter), I have enjoyed it greatly so far, but I began to ask myself why it seems that the catholic epistles receive so little of our focus both in private and corporate worship. I have been a Christian now since '94 and I feel I am now just truly getting to know these 7 wonderful gems in our canon. I just wondered if anyone else has had the same experience of discovery (or rediscovery), with this group of Epistles. Grace and Peace.

Yeah, it seems as if John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, Hebrews, and Revelation get most of the attention in public worship. A Christian who faithfully attends worship for many years may get 2 or 3 trips through John in a 20 or 30 year span, but will probably never hear a verse-by-verse exposition of, say, James. So much for preaching "the whole counsel of God."

Whenever a church gets a new pastor, it's almost stereotypical of him to begin his ministry by preaching through the Gospel of John. It's practically a law...

By the way, since you're going through 1 Peter, I hope you're being exposed to Robert Leighton's commentary from the 17th century. It's his sermons from the book, originally preached in the 1630s. John Brown, in his 19th-century commentary, freely admits that he used Leighton's work as his main inspiration and guide.