1st Peter 3:8-12
Well if you ever really needed to know what it means to be Christian there it is in verse 8. Without these you cannot possibly call yourself Christian. Peter was reminding his reader that these are the things that will keep the Body of Christ (the Church) faithful to Jesus intention for his disciples. Without these we are not the Church because we will have failed to realise Christ’s call to his disciples in the farewell discourses in St John’s Gospel. Not easy but there it is.
Keep this passage with you and possibly look at every day – just as a reminder of just how difficult it is to be Christian but also just how wonderful the world would be if we all were.
Well if you ever really needed to know what it means to be Christian there it is in verse 8. Without these you cannot possibly call yourself Christian. Peter was reminding his reader that these are the things that will keep the Body of Christ (the Church) faithful to Jesus intention for his disciples. Without these we are not the Church because we will have failed to realise Christ’s call to his disciples in the farewell discourses in St John’s Gospel. Not easy but there it is.
Keep this passage with you and possibly look at every day – just as a reminder of just how difficult it is to be Christian but also just how wonderful the world would be if we all were.