1 Peter 2:4-8 ESV – As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
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Luke 12:48 ESV – Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required.
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.
Jesus is the Foundation
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV – For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Intentional Focus On Accomplishing the Mission
Luke 19:10 NLT – For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.
John 20:21 NLT – As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.
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Committed to Unity
1 Peter 2:5 ESV – You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.
John 17:20-23 ESV – I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
