Verse 13 - When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
Ordinary men are no longer ordinary, once they are with Jesus.
They verses starts out by saying " When they saw the courage..." But you could easily replace Courage in the verse with Hope, Compassion, Love, Faith, .....
It seems that we strive to be ordinary in our lives.... as I read this chapter its apparent that ordinary is a "pretty low bar" and that if we are to be Christians, Christ Followers, someone who knows (really knows) Jesus- then ordinary is the last thing thing we want to be.
This makes me ask, if people look at me and see ordinary, then haven't I come up short, missed the mark?
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