Take Heart: Praise in the Pain

Passion City Church DC Podcast

Passion City Church

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week, Pastor Ben Stuart kicks off our brand new journey through 1 Peter by posing a challenging question: how do we make sense of the pain and problems that arise when our allegiance to Jesus comes in conflict with the culture around us? In this message, Pastor Ben shows us four waypoints Peter gave to guide and comfort believers in troubling times, and encourages us to remember that we're part of a story bigger than we can imagine. Key Verses // 1 Peter 1:1-12

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church DC podcast. To learn more about
0:06.7	Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington DC,
0:11.2	visit us online at passioncitychurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.
0:20.2	When I graduated from college, I had a buddy that got a job right out of college.
0:25.2	That was great. It was right in line with his major. It kind of fit with his
0:29.0	gifts and passions. It was a great job. Everything's moving up into the right.
0:32.2	He's winning. So I was surprised a couple of months later to see that he was
0:37.2	no longer at that job. But he was now working in a warehouse loading boxes
0:41.8	under trucks for UPS, which is still a dignified job, but just a totally
0:46.1	different class from the job he was in. So I asked him like, what happened?
0:50.0	And I remember he told me at his previous job, he got in, was excited as he
0:54.8	began to work for this company, not long into it. They had clients come in to
0:59.3	town. And so his boss told him, hey, these are some high-level clients for us.
1:02.4	This is a big deal. They're in here town for some business meetings, but at
1:05.4	night they want to unwind, they want to party. So I need you to take them to a
1:08.0	strip club, get them drunk, show them a wild time. And my friend, who was a
1:12.0	believer in Jesus, said, I can't do that. Not not had a judgment against you or
1:19.0	them or anything. He just knew like, hey, the grace of God touched me and it's
1:22.3	changed me. And it's changed the way I interact with the world, the way I view
1:25.2	sexuality, the way I treat women. And I can't participate in that. But he
1:31.0	tried to be accommodating. He was like, can I take him out to dinner and maybe
1:33.0	take him out to something else fun? Like, I want to kind of excel at this, but I
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