Missional Evangelism

INAGRACE DIETTERICH AND LACEYE WARNER, 2002

First Peter asserts a “strong”—and to modern ears a strange—image of the church, an understanding of the followers of JesusChrist as a “chosen race,” a “royal priesthood,” and a “holynation.” Not a natural or traditional grouping, this is a peopleformed by God’s undeserved mercy.