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  1 Peter #18 1 Peter 5:8-11 (MSG)  Mission Critical-- Discipline, Situational Awareness, Guard Your Heart (Click Here)

  1 Peter #18 1 Peter 5:8-11 (MSG)   Mission Critical--Discipline, Situational Awareness, Guard Your Heart   We know that the congregation that Peter is writing to is experiencing persecution because of their faith.   That sounds like it’s time for a fight.   Stand up and peacefully protest the unjust dealings they were encountering.   How hard would it be for you if someone you had great respect for, someone who may have led you to the Lord and has been mentoring you, not only you but the folks you worship with, how hard would it be when you’re crying for help, for direction and you are told: “submit to the persecution and suffering.” Woah, that’s what God wants, to submit to the persecution and the suffering and the pain, to put up with the slander, and, not to make a stand? That’s exactly what God wants.   Peter has told us to cast all our cares, our anxiety, our concern, and the situation in which we are being persecuted on God because God cares.   To do that takes faith.   Faith i

   1 Peter #17 1 Peter 5:1-7 (MSG) Influenced Influencers Influencing for the Kingdom Click Here

   1 Peter #17 1 Peter 5:1-7 (MSG) Influenced Influencers Influencing for the Kingdom (Click Here)

 1 Peter #17 1 Peter 5:1-7 (MSG) Influenced Influencers Influencing for the Kingdom   Ever play follow the leader?  The rules are simple: A leader is chosen, and everyone else lines up behind the leader and then must copy all the actions and movements of the leader.  The one who won’t jump off the roof is out of the game. The last person still following the leader becomes the new leader. And the game repeats until someone ends up in the hospital or jail. Well, at least in the adult version.   To be a leader one has to have followers.  If the leader has no followers, well, they’re just out taking a walk (John Boehner). Do you see yourself as a leader?  It was John Maxwell who promoted the idea that leadership is influence.  So, have you ever influenced anyone?  Sure you have.  When someone listened to you and they did what you suggested, they followed your lead, ah, that means you’re a leader. Peter gives us a mandate for leaders in the Church. Since you have influenced others i

  1 Peter #16 1 Peter 4: 12-19 Faith in the Fire, Perspectives to Endure the Furnace.  Click Here