Reference

1 Peter 2:21-25; 3:8-12

1. How is this call to unity of mind, compassion, love for one another and humility a piece of good news for you? Does this take the pressure off having to fix all the issues, and trust God to work out the ultimate results and consequences?

 

2. How is this call a challenge for you? Where do you feel God is pressing in and asking you to follow him more closely? Perhaps where you have been fostering some poison through one of the three things Peter draws our attention to: Vengeance. Gossip. Resentment. 

 

3. How does Vengeance, Gossip, and Resentment block or impede the spread of the gospel? The revealing of God's kingdom of love and compassion?

 

4. Where do you see in our world how Christians can use compassion and the same mind of Christ's self giving as a way of reveloution or action for change?

 

5. Off the Wall: Compassion is not something we see often celebrated in our art. Is there a movie, or tv show, or painting that communicates compassion that you can think of?