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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...

the end of the first major division of the letter in 2:10. These first few verses (13–16) stress the call to “holiness.” The opening verse (13) begins with a “journey” image, evocative of the exodus experience of Israel as well as the “exile” status of the readers (see 1:1; 2:11). Literally they are to “gird the loins of (their) minds”—a call for readiness as they set out toward the full experience of salvation that will be theirs at the completion of human history when Jesus Christ is fully revealed
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