Weird
When you hear the word weird, images of Lady Gaga come to mind, or if you are older, Weird Al. Weird is something you do in our culture to define yourself, to stand out, in an effort to be indefinable by friends and family, to beat to your own drum.
According to the Dictionary, Weird means something or suggesting something involving the supernatural, unearthly or uncanny, fantastic or bizarre.
According to Scripture, when someone thinks of a follower of Jesus, the word weird should come to mind. According to 1 Peter 2, we are aliens, exiles on earth.
This spring at Revolution Church, we are going to preach through the books of 1 & 2 Peter and look at this idea of being weird. We will look at how we truly follow Jesus in a way that causes people to ask questions, in a way that says we don’t belong. We will do this by looking at how we live when it comes to trial and pain, submitting to authority (godly and ungodly), in marriage, as a single, when dealing with sin in our lives and to finish off 2 Peter, we will spend 4 weeks looking at how this topic deals with heaven, hell and the afterlife.
Download the study guide for this series here.
Here is what the spring looks like at Revolution Church:
- January 14: Transformation (1 Peter 1:1 - 2; John 21:15 - 19)
- January 21: Hope in the Darkness (1 Peter 1:1 - 9)
- January 28: When Life Doesn't Go as we Planned (1 Peter 1:10 - 13)
- February 4: How do I Know if I'm a Follower of Jesus? (1 Peter 13 - 21)
- February 11: Temptation from Hypocrisy (1 Peter 1:22 - 2:3)
- February 18: Temptation from Worldliness (1 Peter 2:4 - 12)
- February 25: Submission to Godly Authority (1 Peter 2:13 - 17)
- March 3: Submission to Ungodly Authority (1 Peter 2:18 - 25)
- March 10: Marriage & Women (1 Peter 3:1 - 6)
- March 17: Marriage & Men (1 Peter 3:7)
- March 24: Loving God by Suffering (1 Peter 3:8 - 22)
- March 31: What Pain & Suffering Teaches Us (1 Peter 4:1 - 11)
- April 7: How Pain & Suffering Changes Us (1 Peter 4:12 - 19)
- April 14: The Kind of Person God Uses (1 Peter 5:1 - 5)
- April 21: The Kind of Church God Uses (1 Peter 5:6 - 14)
- April 28: Faith in Your New Birth in Christ (2 Peter 1:1 - 4)
- May 5: Faith in Your New Life in Christ (2 Peter 1:5 - 15)
- May 12: True Teachers (2 Peter 1:16 - 21)
- May 19: False Teachers (2 Peter 2:1 - 22)
- May 26: Standing before God (2 Peter 3:1 - 7)
- June 2: When Jesus Returns (2 Peter 3:8 - 10)
- June 9: How God will Transform the World (2 Peter 3:11 - 13)
- June 16: God is not Finished with You (2 Peter 3:14 - 18)