This worship series offers strategies from 1 Peter for dealing with suffering. There's a sad reality we have to address in this scripture before we can understand how it applies to this series. That reality is: some people use the Bible to make people’s suffering worse instead of better, to condemn people rather than uplift.  Today we’ll work on some ways to take the Bible seriously without using it to put people down. Stick with the message and we'll reveal two strategy for those who suffer.