Read 1 Peter 2:4-10

1. As you read v. 9-10, discuss how your life might look different if you really embraced these words in 2023. What do you think would look different? What keeps you from believing these words?

1. As you think about being part of God’s multiethnic family, what might be some of the challenges? How does the gospel help address these challenges?

1. If you are a living stone being used in this spiritual house, how do you still need to be shaped and formed to fit well with the other stones? How do you sense God is at work in smoothing out the rough edges of your life?

1. How does knowing that Jesus is the cornerstone bring confidence about the state of the church and it’s future?