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Erland Waltner (General Conference Mennonite Church) explains how 1 Peter applies Jesus' teaching on loving the enemy to the life situation of scattered Christians in Asia Minor. Peter empowers believers to be communities of hope bearing witness to their living Lord by word, transformed lifestyle, and doing good. J. Daryl Charles (Covenant Community Church) shows how 2 Peter and Jude are...

The message and world of Jude are strangely unfamiliar to modern readers. Whether among lay people, pastors, teachers, or seminarians, this unfamiliarity is conspicuous. With good reason, the letter of Jude has been called “the most neglected book in the NT” (Rowston: 554). Most readers of the Bible, puzzled by cryptic references to Enoch, Michael the archangel, the devil, and a slate of OT characters, are acquainted at best with the letter’s doxology. Although
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