#9 II Peter 1: 18-21 & 2: 1-2, 4-13a, 14-16 "Becoming Real or Betraying Real?"

By Terry Mattson

 Teaching Pages on: 

Becoming Real
or Betraying Real?

Sub-Title:  The Trouble with Tribles (in the Church)

 Text: II Peter 1: 18-21 & 2: 1-2, 4-13a, 14-16, Lesson #9

Focus: on the Real Purpose of The Church: Making Disciples, Not Converts. Bad theology has led to the Church to focus upon 'hell avoidance' instead of becoming 'living signs' of Christ's Present and Future Kingdom in the earth. 

In the end our lives are so busy doing what only God can do instead of 'becoming fully human,' God incarnate as community—which is the one thing God cannot do, except with and through us.

  Note: You may use part or all of these teachings as you wish. 

Scripture: II Peter 1: 18-21 & 2: 1-2, 4-13a, 14-16, Matthew 28: 16-20



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