Welcome Home, With Purpose (1 Peter 2:4-10)

1 Peter 2:4-10

I’m grateful for the hope and encouragement we’re finding in 1 Peter during this series. I’m grateful also to be back and recovered from COVID, healthy and thankful for your prayers and God’s healing! Because I had planned to share in our service several weeks ago before my quarantine, we get to jump back to chapter 2 for another encouraging reflection on the hope we find in Christ.

In fact, this week, we’ll see how Jesus is the “cornerstone” of our faith - how He holds His church together and how He sets our lives on level ground. Join us as we let God’s word remind us who we are and who’s we are, together.

See you Sunday!
Justin

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As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture:

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
    a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone,”

and

“A stone of stumbling,
    and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

-1 Peter 2:4-10