Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. How important do you think it is for an architect or builder to have top quality tools, materials, and training to complete a masterful work? 2. How do you explain why some people accept Jesus and are baptized into him, but yet quickly […]

Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. When have you or someone you know been out of favor with others because of choosing the harder, ethical right over the easier, sinful wrong? 2. Have you or someone you know experienced suffering, or been passed over or left out simply because […]

Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. What different types of authority figures do we live under today (think familial, educational, spiritual, financial, political, work, and other areas of our lives)? Why or how do they have dominion over us? 2. How do you respond to the various “superiors” in […]

Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. What does it mean to be mature? 2. Describe the phases of life from infant to adult. How do they differ? Read 1 Peter 2:1-3 1. First Peter was written for Jewish and Gentile believers early in the life of the church. In […]

Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. Who or what guides your decision making? 2. Do you have a “big picture” view for your life or are you caught up in the details of the everyday grind? Read 1 Peter 1:3-5 1. Peter describes our inheritance (a legacy, a birthright, […]