Easter 5 - Small Group Questions

If you were not with us on Sunday you can listen to this sermon here.

1. Read 1 Peter 2:4-12.
2. If someone asked you to oversee the building and staffing of a community center, what services would it contain? What would the staff do? What kind of people would you get to staff it?
3. What similarities does Peter show between Christ's experience and the Christian's experience?
4. How could you repaint in practical terms what Peter meant by the pictures he gives us in v. 5 and 9?
5. What does a cornerstone do? How is Christ a cornerstone? Why would people stumble over the stone rather than build their lives on it?
6. In what ways would it be difficult for Peter's readers to think of themselves in the terms used in verses 9-10? Is this what Peter thinks they will become, or are they all these things right now? Why?
7. Suppose you are a war correspondent reporting live from the front, how would you describe the war going on within yourself represented by v. 9-10 and verse 11?
8. In what dark rooms or your life has God turned on a light?
9. How does it make you feel to be chosen, royalty, and God's possession? When is it most difficult to remember what God has made you?
10. Pray for one another....