1 Peter 1:13-2:3 – Be Who You Are

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Introduction: Be a Baby

This summer we’re doing an 8 week series on Peter’s letter.  In our introductory sermon we noticed how Peter keeps emphasizing our double-identity: we are chosen by God our Father. But we are also aliens in the world. The world should find us strange, odd, curious, weird. Not that I’m asking us to be especially weird. At least, I don’t really want ME to be weirder than I already am.  

But if we are following Jesus we will be out of sync with our culture, with our neighbours, with our colleagues.  Our values and our goals and our whole perspective on life will be weird to others, and that should not surprise or alarm us. Our way of looking at popularity, at our jobs, at money, at other people, and even the way we see ourselves… is going to be odd, if we are following Jesus.   

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