Vision for church

1. A Vision for Church
1 Peter 2:4-12

2. 1 Peter 2:4-12
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by human
beings but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also,
like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house [a] to
be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:
"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame." [b]

3. 1 Peter 2:4-12
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to
those who do not believe,
"The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone," [c]
8 and,
"A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall." [d]
They stumble because they disobey the message—
which is also what they were destined for.

4. 1 Peter 2:4-12
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the
praises of him who called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you
are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but
now you have received mercy.
Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society
11 Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to
abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they
accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds
and glorify God on the day he visits us.

5. 1. Community
It takes a group to know an
individual

6. C S Lewis – The Four Loves
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend
can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the
whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all
his facets. Now that Charles [a good friend to Lewis and Tolkien] is
dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s [Tolkien] reaction to a
specifically Charles joke. For from having more of Ronald, having
him “to myself” now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald… In
this, Friendship exhibits a glorious “nearness by resemblance” to
heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no
man can number) increases the fruition which each of us has of
God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless

7. 2. Tension
Between the Church and the
World

8. 3. Becoming the Church

9. 3. Becoming the Church
a. Admit we have a cornerstone

10. 3. Becoming the Church
a. Admit we have a cornerstone
b. Make him our cornerstone

11. 3. Becoming the Church
a. Admit we have a cornerstone
b. Make him our cornerstone
c. Line up with Him as our
Cornerstone

12. Choices
The ultimate choices that orders
rightly all our other choices