Theme: How do I continue to live for Christ when people don’t like what I have to say? Peter is concerned with how Jesus is known inside the Church and how He is presented outside the Church. Because of the power of Jesus and the Gospel, when hostility and suspicion come, we are the ones happy and content, we are the ones that are blessed. The blessing of living the Gospel is that it guides us through difficult relationships and it shows us what it means to be the church that God wants us to be, to enjoy life before God and to follow Jesus through suffering.
