Because the early Christians were accused falsely of all sorts of outrageous behavior, Peter urged his readers in I Peter 2:11-25 to be especially careful to live such honorable lives that even their enemies would end up glorifying God. This calling was especially difficult, because they often found themselves in unfair situations that they were powerless to change, in which they suffered unjustly. Amazingly, God called them and calls us to endure unjust suffering and gave us the highest motivation for doing so: Christ already endured unjust suffering for us.
After God used Philip to save many Samaritans, he sent him to evangelize one who had come from the ends of the Earth.
Christians united to a church are not only members of Christ and his church but also of each other.
In the second part of his sermon, Peter emphasized that God raised Jesus from the dead so that even those who had a part...
