We begin a new series today through 1 & 2 Peter. Peter is responding to his fellow believers' suffering. They were hurting simply because they belonged to Jesus.

Suffering for us is not what it was for them, or for many of our brothers and sisters around the world. But that doesn’t mean bad things don’t happen to us because we follow Jesus. When the Holy Spirit goes to work in your life, He has picked a fight with the enemy who is bent on your eternal destruction. Often we come to Jesus expecting things to get easier, when in fact for a time, they get harder. 

As we look at the opening verses of 1 Peter 1, we are given a lens through which we view the hardship we endure for following Christ. It is not a silver lining. It is a necessary change in perspective that will help us navigate the existential crisis caused by our suffering.

Please join us today as we being the series, At Home in Hardship, and we talk about Jesus, the Lord of Suffering from 1 Peter 1:1 - 2.