Christ and the accompanying assessment of their life, then how could the welfare of their present secular city possibly matter to them? There were three reasons given why the transient Christian should be concerned for the welfare of the hostile and ungrateful city. They are to be found in 1 Peter in the very calling of God’s people—a theme elucidated in three places with the verb ‘to call’. They were called upon ‘to declare’, ‘to follow’ and to ‘bless’. There was the fundamental