As I continue to walk my way through the second Epistle of Peter in Sunday school, I can’t help but think of the impact that the false teachers are trying to make on the Christian community. In 2:13-16 Peter characterizes the false teachers as those who go to great lengths to be experts; in greed that is (cf. 2:14). They are trained in greed (“a heart trained in covetous practices,” KJV). In other words, the effort one puts in the gymnasium to obtain a ‘fit body,’ is the same amount of effort that these false teachers put into training their greedy hearts. Wow!
The question that I posed to my Sunday school class was in relation to Peter’s characterization of the false teachers. At what lengths will we go to live righteously? to grow in godliness? Are we training our hearts in a similar and diligent fashion as those false teachers in Peter’s day?
