When the former British Prime Minister, Harold McMillan was asked by a journalist what troubled him most in his political life he famously replied, “Events, Dear Boy, Events”! This last week has seen the most cataclysmic events of our time hit the citadel of capitalism that America has become. The sheer scale of the debts incurred far exceed our comprehension. Indeed the mind struggles in trying to understand how these debts could have arisen in the first place. We act like the humorist, Garrison Keillor’s Lutheran farmers in the Minnesota outback of Lake Wobegon who, when crisis arise, go and do yardwork! Anything to take the mind off what is simply too big to grapple with. It must have been a similar state of mind that prompted Simon Peter to say to his fellow Disciples “I am going fishing” and they replied “We will go with you”. The events of the previous couple of weeks had left them bewildered. The unthinkable had happened. Jesus had been captured. Peter had denied him. Jesus was crucified. They had gone into hiding. Jesus had risen from the dead. He had appeared to them. He had spoken to them. He had eaten food. It was all too much to take in. They needed the therapy of the ordinary. The healing rhythm of routine tasks. But they also knew that things would never be the same. And so it was that Jesus met them on the shore where they were and got involved with their task. They needed to be reminded that they had a greater task to do. Their lives had a greater purpose. Their job was to proclaim that Jesus had risen as he said he would. He had died for them. Now they were to live for him. Events come and events go – capitalism is not Christianity – Jesus still meets people where they are. He reveals himself to them and reminds them that they have a task to do – to introduce others to a risen Saviour who alone can equip them for time and eternity. Jesus calls his followers today to do likewise.