We're Gonna Make It

Title: We're Gonna Make It
Series: Homefield - Peter's Letter to Exiles
Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-12
Have you ever been to a game where your team was the home team? It’s electric! As you sing, cheer, and clap with thousands of people wearing the same color as you, you can feel - “I belong here! These are my people.” Now, if you’ve ever been to an away game, you know…it’s a bit of a different story. You stand out. You’re often alone in your cheering, drawing the hostile glares of those around you. Sometimes it can even be outright dangerous. It makes a big difference to have the Home Field.
What do you do when you are living for Jesus and you don’t have the Home Field advantage? How do you handle being surrounded by those with values and convictions opposite to yours? How do we handle it when our convictions and values find us not in the popular majority but in the unpopular minority?
To answer this question, we turn to Peter’s first letter to followers of Jesus living out an unpopular fight amid the Roman Empire. Don’t miss it as we start this new series: Home Field.