DISCIPLESHIP;
SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Peter was not promoting or predicting a cold and lifeless and formal spirituality in the Christian church when he advised believers to gird up the loins of their minds and be sober.

He was saying to the early Christians as he hopes to say to us now: “Brethren, if ever there was an hour when we needed to be serious about our Christian faith, this is the hour! We need to be sober men—and spiritual men!”

1 Thessalonians 5:1–8; 2 Timothy 2:3–4; 2 Timothy 4:1–5; 1 Peter 1:6–9, 13

I Call It Heresy!, 127.