3. Johnny you can’t have all the candy you want, it’s bad for you!”

4. Johnny you can’t have all the candy you want, it’s bad for you!”

6. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is God- breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

8. Continuing instruction Christians are different in roles and abilities yet equal in responsibility and blessing

10. I Peter 2:10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

12. Galatians 3:26-29 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

14. The responsibility is evangelism… I Peter 3:1 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives.

16. The Christian wife works with her Christian husband as a heroic warrior in the army of the Lord OR she valiantly lives to bring her unbelieving husband to Christ

18. This is where Peter is going – we are one – but we are not all the same.

20. Be reminded – Peter’s motive in writing is to encourage Christians suffering in a non or anti-Christian world to exhibit faithfulness and bear witness to Christ.

22. I Peter 3:15 “But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”

24. How can we always be ready to give an answer?

25. A.Make yourself available to God

26. How can we always be ready to give an answer? A.Make yourself available to God B. Lean into God.

27. How can we always be ready to give an answer? A.Make yourself available to God B. Lean into God. C. Live the Life.

28. How can we always be ready to give an answer? A.Make yourself available to God B. Lean into God. C. Live the Life. i. “A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.”

29. How can we always be ready to give an answer? A.Make yourself available to God B. Lean into God. C. Live the Life. i. “A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.” D. Say the Words