Well, over the last few weeks we have been on a journey together talking about holiness—the reality that God is holy and that He has designed His people to be holy as well, to reflect Him in everything we do. My hope today is that each of us would take a kind of personal inventory and ask ourselves: Is my life a reflection of Jesus in every way? That really is the goal of the Christian life—that day by day we would look more and more like Jesus and that our lives would reflect Him. This morning we find ourselves in 1 Peter 1:15–16 , which will serve as the foundation for what we talk about today. We’ll move through several other passages as well, but this is our starting point. In this opening section of the letter, Peter is encouraging the believers he is writing to live holy lives—to be different, to be set apart, to be unlike the world around them and instead reflect the character of God in everything they do. Peter writes, “But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy i...
