John 21:1-25

John 21

We Learn from this Chapter

I. The wide range of the pastoral office. Whenever the minister is exclusively a fisherman and neglects the labour of the shepherd, he is only doing half his work. He is like a man in a boat who seeks to propel it with one oar, and who succeeds only in making it spin round in a ceaseless circle. He will make no progress, and his people will lack intelligence.

II. The true motive for Christian work, "Lovest thou Me?" The most potent principle in the Christian heart is love to Christ.

III. Difficulties about those things with which we have nothing to do ought not to keep us from performing the plain duty of following Christ. The practical, which lies before us, and for the accomplishment of which we shall be held responsible that is for us the important thing.

W. M. Taylor, Peter the Apostle,p. 153.