garycg
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John
John warned us in his writings about false teachers in his days even:
John reminds us that we must continually go back to what was 'from the beginning' and to the testimony of the first eyewitnesses who bore witness to the Word — who alone is the way, the truth, and the life.":
John's purpose in writing was to counter false teachers who spread wrong ideas about Christ and the nature of Christianity
. The dual themes of belief and obedience dominate the letter, and the two themes "are broken in to three familiar tests to which John continually returns: the test of doctrine, the test of obedience, and the test of love
John is closely related to 1 John and combats false teachers who did not accept the humanity of Jesus and claimed to be above sin
The main message of 2 John "consists of three parts: the command to love (4-6), the error of the false teachers (7-9), and shunning the false teachers (10-11),
Third John addresses a problem of church leadership and speaks specifically to a situation where an individual in one church "was rejecting John's apostolic leadership by refusing to accept the missionary workers sent out by the apostle,
Third John warns us about the perils of the ego,Diotrephes's lust for power caused him to hinder the Christian missionaries and, thus, undermine the central evangelistic task that is at the heart of the gospel. It did so then, and it can do the same now
The two smallest books in the New Testament present us with two of the biggest problems, problems that continue to confront the church.
SBJ editor Stephen J. Wellum
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12/29/2006, 10:08 am
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