Live as Aliens and Strangers

Let's have a conversation about the following Bible verses. They will serve as our guide for the next couple weeks of youth group.

1 Peter 2:9-12.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

What stands out to you in these verses? Whats is hard to accept? What is exciting about this passage? Lets have a conversation!