Worship While You Wait (1 Peter 4:7-5:4) [Jay Thomas]

This week we continue the Advent theme of waiting. We might call this God's gift of forced expectation, so that we actually live in light of the end (rather than for the immediacy of superficiality of the present). To that end, we are taking a bit of a detour in 1 Peter. For reasons I will explain on Sunday, this book makes sense for us to peruse in terms of Advent. The Well has been studying it. God has put it in my lap, in a sense. This book is ruggedly focused on how to be in the J-Curve trough, waiting upon God. And what we will see is that waiting is not stationary. It is beautiful activity. True waiting leads to humble and loving ministry to one another as we anticipate and even reflect the glory of Jesus.