Love Where You Live: Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

Love Where You Live

March 24, 2024

Ben Grasser

If we are going to love where we live, we have to get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.

Even in an unfriendly environment, Peter understood the secret to taking the “weird” out of spiritual conversations.

1 Peter 3:14-16 NLT

Peter’s .

We are afraid, so we’ve created programs to try to help us.

God doesn’t need another ; God needs a .

1 Peter 3:15 NLT

Prepared with

Colossians 4:2-3 NLT

Prepared to

1 Peter 3:15 NASB

Followers of Jesus are of .

Romans 15:13 NLT

1 Peter 3:16 NLT

People aren’t

_____________ is going to Hell.

Are you ok with that?

Discussion Questions

1. Have you ever been stuck in an awkward conversation? 
2. Has there been a time when you resisted sharing the gospel because you were afraid of being thought of as weird or awkward?
3. Read 1 Peter 3:14-16
4. How does your perspective of these verses change when you consider they were written by Peter, the disciple that had denied knowing Jesus three times?
5. Do you think evangelism programs (The Romans Road, One Verse Evangelism, F.A.I.T.H., etc.) are effective? Why or why not?
6. Read Colossians 4:2-3. What are some specific ways you can prepare yourself to share Christ with others when opportunities arise?
7. Read Romans 15:13. What has God personally done in your life that makes you an expert witness of hope?
8. What are some ways that you have inadvertently treated people as projects?
9. Think about whose name you would write in this blank: ____________ is going to Hell.
10. If that person were to die right now, would you feel like you had done everything you were supposed to do to help them see the truth of the gospel?