Living for Jesus, suffering for righteousness

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Covenant Presbyterian Church
Living for Jesus, suffering for righteousness
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Passage: 1 Peter 1

Introduction

  • Author and audience

Promise of salvation

  • God’s story: creation, fall, redemption, restoration

Praise in suffering

  • What did Christian suffering look like, for the scattered exiles?
  • What does Christian look like, in the here and now?
  • What kinds of Christian suffering are we experiencing today?

Purified and set apart

  • Don’t conform to the world – “with minds that are alert and fully sober”
  • Love one another deeply – using words to encourage and build up