Part 3: Redeeming the Ridicule
A quick search online will show how many people today think our faith is a joke. It was the same in Peter’s day. Note that his advice is not to get angry or offended, or to ridicule in return, but to prove them wrong. He. goes on to show us how in chapter 3.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.
