Covenant Presbyterian Church

Speaker: Chong Shao

  • Living for Jesus, suffering for righteousness

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    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