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A gospel in blank verse with rhymed parables<br />
He’s shouting, he’s laughing,<br />
He’s waving to friends<br />
‘Come round for a drink!’…<br />
Thus our story ends.<br />
No longer a flock<br />
Of just ninety and nine.<br />
All are together now:<br />
Everything’s fine.<br />
Accountants can argue.<br />
They may stand their ground.<br />
But the one that’s most valued<br />
Is the lost that’s been found.<br />
Not only was it in the synagogue<br />
that people heard what Jesus had proclaimed<br />
about the bread from Heaven and the need<br />
to eat his flesh and blood. It got about,<br />
and many found it difficult to grasp.<br />
It seemed offensive and impossible<br />
and many former followers withdrew.<br />
There’s no doubt Jesus was aware of this.<br />
At Caesarea Philippi the Lord<br />
confronted all the Twelve and asked them whom<br />
the people thought that he might be. Some said<br />
they thought he was Elijah, or perhaps<br />
the Baptist, or maybe Jeremiah,<br />
or almost anyone who’d prophesied.<br />
‘Do any of you wish to go away?<br />
Perhaps you’ve heard enough from me’, he said.<br />
Peter replied and spoke up for them all.<br />
‘For us, you are no prophet from the dead.<br />
You have the message of eternal life<br />
and we’ve believed and we have come to know<br />
that you’re the Christ, God’s Holy One, the Son –<br />
the only Son of He who reigns in Heaven.’<br />
‘Blessed are you, good Simon, Jonah’s son,<br />
for no man could have ever told you this.<br />
It is a revelation that has come<br />
direct from Heaven, from my Father there.<br />
And I’ll tell you this -- I named you Peter<br />
because upon this rock, this massive rock,<br />
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