Peter's Denial

So on Sunday, we discussed the Crucifixion and the events directly leading up to it. One of the things we talked about was Peter's denial of knowing Christ. There were a few varying opinions as to whether that was bad or not. One brother brought up Pres. Kimball's talk about it called "Peter, My Brother" (or something like that... I may have got the word order wrong). I read that talk several years ago and thought it was fantastic.

In any case, regardless of how people felt about it, I thought it was important to make the distinction between denying Christ and denying that he knew Christ. That's pretty different, and nowhere do we read that Peter denied Christ. He did, however, deny that he knew Him. And then one sister made a comment that we do the same thing. We may not deny Christ, but sometimes we deny knowing Him by how we act. I thought it was profound.

Are there times in my life when I would be ashamed if someone approached me and asked if I was Christ's friend? Would I feel regret over my current actions or conversation? I wish that I could answer in the negative, but I know there are times in which I would realize what I was doing was not what a disciple of Christ would really do and that I was denying knowing Him by what I doing. I hope we all can do a little better.