Don’t Drift. Stay Dependent.

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

What does it mean to live faithfully as Christians in a culture that increasingly does not understand Christian hope, values, or priorities?

In this message, Paul Mulroney explores Peter’s encouragement to believers living as “strangers in a strange land” — citizens of heaven navigating a world that often pulls us away from dependence on God.

While many Australian Christians may not experience persecution in the biblical sense, we do face other pressures:

• distraction,
• self-reliance,
• anxiety,
• spiritual drift,
• cultural compromise,
• and the temptation to live as though God is optional.

Drawing from 1 Peter 4–5, Paul unpacks two key themes:

• dependence on God,
• and the danger of s ...