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Crisis in the church is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the church has always been—and probably always will be—involved in some kind of crisis. Even in the apostolic period, which is regarded by many as the church’s golden age, there were serious crises coming both from the outside, as in 1 Peter, and from the inside, as in Jude and 2 Peter. The three short New Testament letters treated in 1...

seeking to make progress in Christian life. The program begins with “faith” (pistis) and ends in “love” (agapē). The six virtues in between faith and love might be regarded as “natural” human virtues. But in the context of an early Christian list ranging from faith to love and built upon God’s gift in Christ the natural virtues are infused with a distinctively Christian content. While pistis (faith) here may have its basic biblical sense of “trust in, remain faithful,” it probably also conveys the
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