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.
The Sermon on the Mount is often acclaimed (even by non-Christians) as the greatest moral teaching ever presented. It dares us to dream of the world-changing things that could happen if we began to walk like Him.
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.
