Peter's second epistle addresses critical issues that affect the well-being and growth of God's people -
- Believers drifting away from the faith - Spiritual blindness and blandness - False teaching infiltrating the church - Confusion about the end times
It's a 1st-century message with relevance for 20th-century Christians. Problems that plagued the early church are still around, but so are the resources God provided for solving those problems.
Engle focuses on the affirming truths of 2 Peter and how they offset the dangers to our faith. He unwraps key biblical doctrines - such as election and the inspiration of Scripture - to remind us of what we believe (or should believe) and stimulate us to greater faith.
Paul E. Engle, series editor for Counterpoints Church Life, is an ordained minister who served for twenty-two years in pastoral ministry in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan. He is an adjunct teacher in several seminaries in this country and internationally. He serves as associate publisher and executive editor in the Church, Academic, and Ministry Resources team at Zondervan. He and his wife Margie, live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.