" considering the question, what’s the difference between Judas and Peter,*3 I’ve wondered what would’ve happened if  Judas would have had a forgiving encounter with the resurrected Christ in the same way Peter did. What would’ve happened if  Judas had heard in his ears a word of grace just for him, a word he could not create for himself. Would he still have died at his own hand? Proclaiming the purifying, forgiving love of  God is what I call preaching the gospel. But in a way, it’s really only preaching if the one doing the proclaiming hears it too. As "

― Nadia Bolz-Weber , Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People