This sermon concludes a short series on the letter of 1 Peter.  In the text Peter explains the role of an elder, and by doing this indirectly identifies the kind of community that should be built within a church.

Guest speaker, Lance Marshall, is a jail minister in Contra Costa County, California.  In this sermon he shares some of the things he has learned as he works to help inmates in jails.  Lance shares very touching and wonderful insights, and this sermon is well worth listening to.

1 Peter 2:11-12 and 3:13-17 are the texts for this sermon.  This sermon looks at Peter's call to the exiles to be people who live with integrity and by so doing make the gospel attractive to their neighbors.  The sermon contrasts this way of living against what is normally thought of when we say "evangelism."