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Leader Guide for Lesson 10

  1. What are you willing to give your life for: having a good time on the weekends, or living by the will of God? What is the price of each?

    2. Living for God means that you miss what the world has to offer. Living for the world means that you miss what God has to offer.

  2. How does Peter encourage his readers to understand that their old way of life is over (4:2-3)?

    3. If we have suffered for Christ, it means we are committed to the One whose suffering overcame sin. We do not live for minor, unworthy, fleshly goals.

  3. Why do people of the world have a hard time with those who do not live the way they do (4:4)?

    4. For many of them, they know better than to live the way they are. Seeing a Christian convicts them of their wrong, but they lash out instead of being willing to change.

  4. What helps a person who has been living for the world to realize the need to change his or her ways (4:5-6)?

    5. One day he will have to answer for his what he has done. What we do now has consequences eternally.

  5. How does love cover a multitude of sins (4:8)?

    6. It says that love is more important than the wrong someone did. It stops the cycle of hurt and retribution and buries the wrong in the past.

  6. Why is hospitality important? Why is it sometimes done with grumbling (4:9)?

    7. Hospitality is a genuine expression of caring and acceptance. It is done with grumbling if we really don't want to do it and don't care about others.

  7. How are your abilities and gifts a demonstration of God's grace (4:10)?

    8. God gave us our abilities in the first place. As God has blessed us, we can bless others.

  8. What is the difference between the pagan lifestyle and a life lived for the will of God? How can a Christian be different without being weird?

It is the difference between living for self and living for others. Sometimes we might have to risk being considered weird.

 

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