Peter has pleaded with the church to be different, to be witnesses of Christ by living in submission to the leaders of government, to the employers and bosses at their jobs, even to their spouses as both wives and husbands, he then says, in verse 8, “Now the end” and tells us to live in submission to each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. If submission flows from Christ it must also flow back to Christ in how we treat each other within the Body of Christ. Peter has used Christ’s example, in this section he uses Christ’s words and then he closes by quoting Psalm 34, revealing exactly what submission must always look like: control of our words, turning our ears, hearts and lives away from anything that can be counted as evil and to commit ourselves to always, no matter the cost or the source, do good.
Join us Wednesday night as we take one last look at submission and ask ourselves if we are truly committed to “submitting ourselves one to another”. While this commitment starts in the heart, Peter and David, tell us that it is lived out through our words which will always lead to our actions. How do we speak submission so that we do good and turn from evil? We will be meeting at 7:00 PM at the Kulynych’s home, 945 Bordentown Rd. in Burlington. We apologize but there is no child care provided for this gathering.