"Wrecked and Refined: A Study of 1 Peter.

" -Chase Clunan and Matt Solomon What do you do with the train wrecks of your life? In 1 Peter the Christians were exiled and on mission for Jesus in a world that was not their home. Ultimately God used the trials and extreme difficulties in their lives to refine them. What if you could learn to change the results of the trials and extreme difficulties that occur in your life and the lives of those around you? Weekly Schedule 1. Get to know each other/discussion of theme/background of 1 Peter 1:1-2 Matt 2. Greeting/Blessing 1:3-12 <A Living Hope> Chase a. 3 descriptions of salvation i. Grounded in resurrection ii. Experienced through suffering iii. Completed at the return of Christ b. A backward glance at salvation i. Advantage over prophets ii. Advantage over angels First Response to Suffering: Creating a Holy Community 3. Call to Holy Living 1:13-25 <Defining Holiness> Chase a. Be holy as God is holy (13-16) i. Mind ready ii. Desires in check b. Rationale for holy conduct (17-21) i. We have been redeemed from a worldly lifestyle ii. God is both judge and father c. Results of holy conduct (22-25)

i. Obedience ii. Love 4. Creation of Vibrant Community 2:1-10 <Defining Community> Matt [speak about Israels identity boundary markers, especially Levitical law] a. Metaphor 1: Craving pure spiritual milk (1-3) i. Word picture = putting off like dirty clothes ii. Wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander = communitydestroying sins iii. Spiritual milk = pure milk of the word; tasting goodness + new birth = new reality established by resurrection of Jesus b. Metaphor 2: Building the spiritual house (4-10) i. Us = living stones ii. Jesus = cornerstone iii. Royal priesthood Second Response to Suffering: Winsome Witness in Society 5. Good Conduct for the Sake of Evangelism/Examples 2:11-3:7 <title> Chase 6. General Principles Concerning Undeserved Suffering 3:8-4:6 <title> Matt 7. Exhortational and Doctrinal Summaries 4:7-19 <title> Matt/Chase 8. Final Exhortations/Closing 5:1-14 <title> also Loose-ends Chase/Matt