1 Peter 4:3-6

1 Peter 4:3-6 (ESV): 3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. 4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; 5 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.

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Discussion Questions:

What is a time you felt peer pressure?  Why is peer pressure so powerful?

How does it help us understand these verses if we remember that Peter is calling Christians "exiles" (1 Peter 1:1), people who are living in a foreign country?

For the Christian, the idea of God's judgment is meant to be an encouragement.  Why do you think this is?