2009-09-11T12:40:18-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/refinement/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Peter%201:6-7&version=NIV 2009-09-11T12:40:18-05:00 When Christians suffer for their faith, they should understand their trials as a refining fire--painful at the time, but something they'll emerge from even stronger than before, just as gold must go through the fiery process of refinement before it's fully presentable.