Date: November 2, 2025
Text: 1 Peter 2:11-17
Questions:
1. Take a moment to reflect. Does anything in this passage challenge your current beliefs? Your current practices? What is your favorite verse from this passage? Why?
2. Read 1 Peter 2:11-12. Have you ever been in a place or event where you didn’t fit in? Please share your experience with the group. Why do we want to fit in?
3. How does Peter refer to those reading or listening to his letter? Why does the apostle refer to these individuals in this way?
4. What are some of those things that tempt you personally? How does thinking about your true home help you overcome these cravings?
5. What passions of the flesh does Peter identify? What do these passions desire to do to us?
6. What do these passions promise? What do they deliver?
7. What is the nature of the enemy Peter warns us against here? Read Matthew 15:10-20. What are some things that come out of our hearts?
8. Why are we supposed to keep our conduct honorable? What does it tell those around us when we don’t make this a priority?
9. Should we expect to be treated negatively as Christians? Why/why not? How are we supposed to react? What were some of the things the first-century believers were charged with by their neighbors?
10. Let's engage in a powerful act of faith. Spend some time praying for the needs of our family, friends, group members, congregation, and unsaved neighbors.
1. Take a moment to reflect. Does anything in this passage challenge your current beliefs? Your current practices? What is your favorite verse from this passage? Why?
2. Read 1 Peter 2:11-12. Have you ever been in a place or event where you didn’t fit in? Please share your experience with the group. Why do we want to fit in?
3. How does Peter refer to those reading or listening to his letter? Why does the apostle refer to these individuals in this way?
4. What are some of those things that tempt you personally? How does thinking about your true home help you overcome these cravings?
5. What passions of the flesh does Peter identify? What do these passions desire to do to us?
6. What do these passions promise? What do they deliver?
7. What is the nature of the enemy Peter warns us against here? Read Matthew 15:10-20. What are some things that come out of our hearts?
8. Why are we supposed to keep our conduct honorable? What does it tell those around us when we don’t make this a priority?
9. Should we expect to be treated negatively as Christians? Why/why not? How are we supposed to react? What were some of the things the first-century believers were charged with by their neighbors?
10. Let's engage in a powerful act of faith. Spend some time praying for the needs of our family, friends, group members, congregation, and unsaved neighbors.
Date: November 9, 2025
Text: 1 Peter 2:11-17
Questions:
1. What particularly stood out to you from this sermon? Was anything significantly reassuring or challenging? What is your favorite verse from this passage? Why?
2. Read 1 Peter 2:13. What does it mean to be subject? Why are we to behave in this manner?
3. Read Romans 13:1. Is there ever a time we should disobey the laws of our country? If this is not taking place, what are we supposed to do?
4. Read Jeremiah 29:4-7. What were some of the things Jeremiah told the exiles to do? Why did he give them this instruction? What does this teach us about our behavior?
5. When we willingly submit to the leadership of the government, what are we demonstrating to ourselves, each other, and our neighbors? What are some ways we can seek the welfare of our community?
6. Read 1 Peter 2:14-15. Why shouldn’t we cut ourselves off from the world by establishing our own society? Why shouldn’t we embrace all of our society’s ethics and standards as our own?
7. Read 1 Peter 2:16-17. What have we been set free from as God’s children? Why are we free now?
8. Should we use the freedom we enjoy in Christ as an excuse to participate in evil? Why/why not?
9. Who are we supposed to honor? Why? To whom do our most important obligations lie? What does life on mission look like for you?
10. Let's engage in a powerful act of faith. Spend some time praying for the needs of our family, friends, group members, congregation, and unsaved neighbors.
1. What particularly stood out to you from this sermon? Was anything significantly reassuring or challenging? What is your favorite verse from this passage? Why?
2. Read 1 Peter 2:13. What does it mean to be subject? Why are we to behave in this manner?
3. Read Romans 13:1. Is there ever a time we should disobey the laws of our country? If this is not taking place, what are we supposed to do?
4. Read Jeremiah 29:4-7. What were some of the things Jeremiah told the exiles to do? Why did he give them this instruction? What does this teach us about our behavior?
5. When we willingly submit to the leadership of the government, what are we demonstrating to ourselves, each other, and our neighbors? What are some ways we can seek the welfare of our community?
6. Read 1 Peter 2:14-15. Why shouldn’t we cut ourselves off from the world by establishing our own society? Why shouldn’t we embrace all of our society’s ethics and standards as our own?
7. Read 1 Peter 2:16-17. What have we been set free from as God’s children? Why are we free now?
8. Should we use the freedom we enjoy in Christ as an excuse to participate in evil? Why/why not?
9. Who are we supposed to honor? Why? To whom do our most important obligations lie? What does life on mission look like for you?
10. Let's engage in a powerful act of faith. Spend some time praying for the needs of our family, friends, group members, congregation, and unsaved neighbors.