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As a young church in a hostile environment, Peter's first readers found in his letter encouragement, not just for facing suffering, but for living responsibly in the world as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians today will also find in Peter's letter a wealth of practical counsel on how to conduct themselves in family and social life, as well as in relation to a society that makes it...

Strangers in the World (2:11–12)* In a well-known passage in The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes how Christian and Faithful travel through this world to the Celestial City by way of Vanity Fair and are seized because they are not interested in the wares for sale but only in truth. This imagery is derived from passages such as this one. But is it a true representation of what it means to be a Christian in the world? Does it perhaps present only one side of the truth? Certainly if Christians