Cornerstone Community Church
Jesus: our Cornerstone
Speaker: Pastor Nate Herrlin
Jesus: our Cornerstone
We’re priests too
Encouraged by the reality that Jesus is our great High Priest!
Challenged with the responsibility that we’re priests too.
1 Peter 2:4-5 NIV
1 Peter 2:9 NIV
1. What do we DO as God’s “holy priesthood”?
Give VERBAL PRAISE to God
1 Peter 2:10 NIV
1.What do we DO as God’s “holy priesthood”?
Live a HOLY LIFE for God.
1 Peter 2:11-12 NIV
Live a HOLY LIFE for God.
1. Abstain from sinful desires
2. Live a “good life” among those who are far from God.
True “good” is more about loving behavior than about the absence of evil.
“The good Samaritan”
Luke 10
Hebrews 5:1-2 NIV
2. In what SPIRIT ought we to function as God’s “priests”?
GENTLENESS
Live in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to know God because they knew you.