Coming up next on renewing your mind.

The church is built upon the foundation of the prophets and the apostles.

The chief cornerstone is Christ, the living stone.

But that every Christian who is in Christ is also called to be a stone.

A living stone.

Part of the fabric of this building called the church.

When you hear the word church, what do you think of?

You might think of a building or your pastor and the people you see every Sunday.

You might even think of a religious system with a massive hierarchical structure.

But we'll see it differently today as we return to our C-Sprull series on First Peter.

We'll learn about the foundation and cornerstone of this spiritual house in our place in it.

We've been looking briefly at the first letter of the apostle Peter in the New Testament.

And I mentioned in our first session that Peter was given the nickname as the apostle of hope

because his letter is so uplifting and so comforting for people who are on the midst of suffering and affliction and tribulation.

But we also remember that Peter had a more famous nickname.

In fact, the very name Peter was not the name with which he was born.

He was called Simon or Seifas.

And he was renamed Peter by Jesus because of the great Caesarea Philippi confession.

You remember that incident that is recorded for us in Matthew's gospel when Jesus asked his disciples about the scuttle butt.

He said, who do men say that I am?

And they told Jesus what the public opinion polls were reporting.

And he finally then turned to his disciples and said, fine, who do you say that I am?

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