Reading of 1 Peter

We’re moving onward in our series called ‘Stand Firm” where we’ve been doing a deep dive into the Books of 1 & 2 Peter. We spent the first 11 weeks on a section of the letter where Peter exhorts his audience to live into their new identity as children of the Heavenly Father. But we’ve spent the last 3 weeks moving into the heart of the letter that focuses on how we live as Christians in light of our new birth — our new identity as a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and as God’s special possession. For Week 14 we began a two-part look into 1 Peter 2:18-25 which reads,

This Sunday looked a bit different. With the recent Omicron variant making its rounds through our community, we took a pause and slowed down to engage in both an ancient and Biblical practice of reading the Scriptures aloud. Church, take a moment to consider the joy it is that we a) belong to the family of God — that we count amongst our ancestors Abraham and Israel AND b) that God has raised up this family of believers to serve even when a virus wreaks havoc on so many.

Give the text a read and the reading a listen and we hope to see you this week at a Family Meal and/or a DNA group to dive even deeper.