Peter, Confident Apostle

We appreciate confidence. We want leaders, mechanics, and doctors who are confident when they tell us what’s wrong and how to fix it. But oddly, confidence doesn’t always work out. Before the stock market bubble popped in 2008, investor confidence was high, but it proved mistaken.

If anyone was confident, it was Peter, the alpha apostle who knew what he thought and wasn’t afraid to say it. Yet the Gospel of Matthew tells us that Peter wound up disowning Jesus, despite his confidence that he would not. Was Peter’s confidence flawed? Can we learn something about our own confidence from Peter’s story?