Renown missiologist Lesslie Newbigin says,

“It is surely a fact of inexhaustible significance that what our Lord left behind Him was not a book, nor a creed, nor a system of thought, nor a rule of life, but a visible community.”

In this teaching we explore how our gospel identity gives birth to a visible gospel family of deep, sincere love (1 Peter 1:22-25).

However, Peter warns us with five community killers that threaten to destroy our gospel family (1 Peter 2:1).

How are you prone to malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander in the life of our church family?

Yet as we live together as a family, we remember we are like a dependent nursing child.

As you journey with us through 1 Peter and this teaching, notice how Psalm 34 is referenced throughout and may it encourage you in this season.