Our Vocation: Lay Ministry
4/22/202641 min
To live a Christian life is much more transformative than just trying to live better.
If you’re a Christian, you are a living stone in the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you are a holy priesthood called to do sacrifices to the Lord, because you’re related to the cornerstone, Jesus Christ. Now that’s quite an image. What does it all mean?
Let’s unpack that under three headings: 1) what we are called to be, 2) what we’re called to do, and 3) how we can be enabled and empowered to do it.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on June 29, 2014. Series: Following Jesus. Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4-10.
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[on-hold music playing] You're listening to the Gospel and Life Podcast. What does authentic spiritual growth actually look like? Writing to early believers, Peter outlined several qualities of a life that looks more and more like Christ's. Today, Tim Keller takes a closer look at how we can develop this in our own lives, and how the resurrection of Jesus makes true, lasting transformation possible.
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[sighs] Scripture reading is 1 Peter 2:4-10. As you come to him, the living stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame." Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"