Prepare your heart for our Sunday Morning Gathering by looking through these suggestions that will assist you in making the most of our time together.

You will find tangible suggestions for putting scripture to action in your personal life and in our corporate body, links to the songs we will sing, and lyrics for you to prepare for our corporate singing.

Critically Think

• 1 Peter 1:23-25.
• To whom is Peter writing? What is the occasion and the reason for this epistle?
• What is the main topic that Peter addresses in 1:3-21?
• How does 1:22-25 summarize and finalize what Peter has said up to this point in chapter 1?
• What is the primary thrust and takeaway of 1:22-25?
• What is the Old Testament reference that Peter is quoting in 1:24-25a?

Prayerfully Meditate

• Summarize the main idea of 1 Peter 1:23-25 in 21 words or less.
• Peter makes a connection between loving the brethren (1:22) and salvation (1:23). Is this connection casual or essential?
• In relation to loving one another, two modifiers are used: sincere and fervently. How might we think about love of the brethren without that emphasis? What do these modifiers keep us from/press us to?
• The concepts of “seed” and “word of God” are also impacted by modifiers: not perishable/imperishable and living and enduring. How are “not perishable/imperishable”, “living”, and “enduring” conceptually related?
• Why does Peter make the point in 1:25b that “this is the word which was preached to you”? Why does it matter that it was this word that was preached to them, and why does it matter that it was preached to them?

Intentionally Act

• Considering God’s perfect, authoritative revelation (2 Timothy 3:16-17), in what specific ways should we submit to what God has revealed in this passage?
• How should 1 Peter 1:23-25 reassure and encourage us? How can it humble us and magnify God?
• How can 1:23-25 be used to assess one’s own salvation? Sanctification?
• How can the message of 1:23-25 be shared with an unbeliever? Should it?
• Take the next few minutes and pray for the impact of this text, and the preaching of it, to your own heart. Identify two other members or attendees at SWBC and pray for their response to this text, as well. Make a plan to follow up with them throughout the next week to ask how they are thinking through what they heard, and to share how you are applying it in your own life. 
• Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; learn the songs, study the lyrics and sing them with others.
• Pray for those leading our corporate gathering this week and for the Holy Spirit’s work as the Word of God is further explained and applied: Joel Conrad: music; Ben Gardner: elder prayer & scripture reading; Terry Engling: teaching.

Songs for Sunday

Morning Gathering

• This Is Our God (sheetmusic)
• Your Word Remains (sheetmusic)
• Christ the Sure and Steady Anchor (sheetmusic)
• How Deep the Father's Love For Us (sheetmusic)
• All I Have Is Chrsit (sheetmusic)

Lyrics

Lyrics Morning Gathering - July 27, 2025 by Summit Woods Baptist Church