Wouldn't it be something if, one of these days, someone digging around in Israel, or Turkey or Italy maybe, finds an old ceramic jar containing an ancient manuscript and gets it looked at by some respectable archeologist, and the respectable archeologist studies it for a while and then holds a press conference and announces that it's actually a letter written about 1,900 years ago by the apostle Peter? I can see the people of West London being pretty interested in it. And if the respected archeologist announces, to the surprise of people all over the world, that he's going to let the people of West London have copies of this ancient letter so that we can study it together, say, this summer, well, it might cause a pretty good stir in the church, and maybe all over London. (Who knows? The London Free Press might want to do a little article on it!)
In actual fact, something like this has actually happened. Except that the original letter written by the apostle Peter has not been recently discovered for the very good reason that it has never been lost. It's been in the New Testament all along --- so West London can study it this summer without any need for the Free Press to look into the whole thing.
