Message 1
SEPTEMBER 6
Who Is Scoring Your Life?
1 Peter 1:1–12
Before you accomplish anything, God speaks about who you are.
A SERMON SERIES AT VINEYARD ABQ
The Algorithms
of Life
Who or What Defines You?
Your phone isn't the only thing running an algorithm.
So are approval, performance, appearance, health,
usefulness, status, control and the need to belong.
The question isn't whether your life is being measured. Who gets the final word?
The question isn't whether your life is being measured. Who gets the final word?
SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER 2026 • A 9-MESSAGE SERIES THROUGH 1 PETER
> scan.life()
approval = unstable
performance = never_enough
appearance = temporary
control = illusion
crowd = inconsistent
> 1_peter.load()
chosen = true
hope = living
belonging = Gods_people
future = guarded
approval = unstable
performance = never_enough
appearance = temporary
control = illusion
crowd = inconsistent
> 1_peter.load()
chosen = true
hope = living
belonging = Gods_people
future = guarded
THE IDEA
You're not just living life.
You're being scored.
Some scoreboards are obvious: likes, followers, grades, income and appearance.
Others are quieter: being needed, keeping everyone happy, staying healthy, looking spiritual, staying in control or being accepted by the right people.
Most of these things aren't evil. The problem begins when we ask them to answer a question they were never qualified to answer:
What am I worth?
“What if the things measuring your life were
never authorized to define it?”
THE HIDDEN SCOREBOARDS
What's running your life?
01
The Approval Algorithm
If they like me, include me, want me or applaud me, I must be okay.
02
The Performance Algorithm
If I achieve, produce, advance and win, then I matter.
03
The Body & Image Algorithm
If I look right, feel right, stay young or stay healthy, then I have value.
04
The Control Algorithm
If I can keep everything together, fix everything and stay needed, then I'll be safe.
These things can be good servants.
They make terrible gods.
1 PETER 1–5
Nine Messages.
One Question.
What happens when God's declaration about you becomes
more authoritative than the scoreboards around you?
We're walking through the entire letter of 1 Peter
from September through November.
September
Message 2
SEPTEMBER 13
Stop Auditioning for Your Worth
1 Peter 1:13–25
Holiness isn't an audition for God's love. Obedience grows out of redemption.
Message 3
SEPTEMBER 20
The Crowd Doesn't Get to Name You
1 Peter 2:1–12
Living stones. A chosen people. A royal priesthood.
October
Message 4
OCTOBER 4
Who Are You Trying to Impress?
1 Peter 2:13–25
Status, authority and reputation reveal whose approval has become ultimate.
Message 5
OCTOBER 11
Stop Letting Them Run Your Life
1 Peter 3:1–12
Their behavior doesn't have to become the algorithm that determines yours.
Message 6
OCTOBER 18
What If Doing Right Costs You?
1 Peter 3:13–22
Faithfulness sometimes has a price. Peter calls us to courage without hostility.
November
Message 7
NOVEMBER 1
When Normal Is Wrong
1 Peter 4:1–11
“Everybody does it” has never been God's definition of normal.
Message 8
NOVEMBER 8
When the Algorithm Turns Against You
1 Peter 4:12–19
What happens when approval becomes rejection, criticism or exclusion?
Message 9
NOVEMBER 15
When the Scoreboard Breaks
1 Peter 5:1–11
Careers change. Bodies age. Influence fades. What remains when the score no longer works?
SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER 2026
What algorithm is running your life?
Join us as we walk through 1 Peter and discover what happens when God's Word becomes more authoritative than approval, performance, image, control or the crowd.
“You are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood,
a holy nation,
His own special people…”
1 Peter 2:9
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