Sadly, for many a Christian attending many a church, Sunday or Wednesday is anything but a refuge. Instead, it is a tense, uncomfortable experience, an unpleasant meeting with people you’d otherwise rather not be with. Gossip, backbiting, unkind words, bitterness, malice, envy, jealousy, division, cliques and every manner of relationship-sin you find in the world is found in the church. Peter is writing this Scripture to say: Christians, make church a refuge.

Sadly, for many a Christian attending many a church, Sunday or Wednesday is anything but a refuge. Instead, it is a tense, uncomfortable experience, an unpleasant meeting with people you’d otherwise rather not be with. Gossip, backbiting, unkind words, bitterness, malice, envy, jealousy, division, cliques and every manner of relationship-sin you find in the world is found in the church. Peter is writing this Scripture to say: Christians, make church a refuge.