2 Peter is about confronting apostasy and apostasy is simply the falling away from the faith. In the evangelical church we see that apostasy is approaching, the storm is coming and for some it’s already settled in.

· This summer almost all of your evangelical denominations have held their yearly meetings :SBC in June, UMC in May, PCA in July, PCUSA in June, ELCA in August.

And there are too many sub divisions of denominations to list.

All of these denominations are meeting to clarify what they believe and what they will teach

Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a think tank advocating orthodoxy in mainline denominations, has pointed out the decline in America’s mainline denominations

“Liberal Protestants think that credo orthodoxy is passe and no longer sustainable and that for the church to remain relevant in the world, the focus needs to be on social-political action rather than espousing archaic creeds and beliefs,”

Basically – Scripture is too archaic. It has no-relevance to our world today. They believe the Bible doesn’t address the problems that we have today such as: racism, gender inequality, transgenderism, poverty, sexuality, etc.

Since they believe this to be true, they’re rewriting what God’s Word says; they’re following feeling and preference instead of truth. They’re redefining truth and after all, they’re the church. They’re all about love, compassion and the welfare of their fellow man.

But do you know what is excluded from their rhetoric? Any mention of Holiness, sanctification, purity, Christlikeness.

And this is what apostasy looks like in the church today.

The storm has arrived – and it’s nothing new.

Peter addressed this same issue nearly 2000 years ago and before that we can trace the history of false teaching all the way to the garden of Eden.