Below please find the video from last Thursday night's 'live-streamed' Worship Service. At the end of the sermon, I called for understanding between those of us who don't believe the church should resume formal worship and those who are anxious to gather once more in celebration of our Lord.
We need to be sympathetic to each other, our fears, our needs, our very understanding of how and why we worship. Let us do our very best to be gentle, loving, and kind to each other as we journey forward through what has become and remains a most difficult and trying time in history.
Be a blessing to someone today!
In His Grace,
Roy
1 Peter 3:13-22 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
13 Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? 14 But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear,[a] and do not be intimidated, 15 but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; 16 yet do it with gentleness and reverence.[b] Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. 18 For Christ also suffered[c] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you[d] to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. 21 And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for[e] a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.
Footnotes:
a) 1 Peter 3:14 Gk their fear
b) 1 Peter 3:16 Or respect
c) 1 Peter 3:18 Other ancient authorities read died
d) 1 Peter 3:18 Other ancient authorities read us
e) 1 Peter 3:21 Or a pledge to God from
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