On May 29, River Corner Church brought our series, Confidence, to a close. Jeff McLain looked at 1 Peter 3:15-17 and how spiritual confidence is both found and grown in community, but it spiritual confidence also witnesses to the places we live, work, and play.
For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, Confidence. This series looks at the word, elpō which conveys the idea of “living hope,” “sure footing,” or “confidence.” This word, confidence, is one that Peter uses five times throughout the letter of 1 Peter. Confidence is a consistent theme as Peter writes to his disciples and church communities who have been scattered across the region in situations that are robbing them of their confidence in life.
These early followers of Jesus were dealing with increasing problems, pandemics, poverty and persecution in the empire. They were also finding themselves now isolated in society and their families as they discovered new purpose in following Jesus. It is to these beat up, bruised, and bedraggled ragamuffins that Peter writes a letter to encourage them in these tough situations, but Peter also wanted to give them a new paradigm, a paradigm of what it means to live confidently through faith. I hope that as we explore Peter’s ideas of confidence, that we are encouraged on how we can live confidently in some uncomfortable times.
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