A Loving Community. Studies in the Epistles of John.

Songs of love, life, and fellowship-these are the Epistles of John. An opening statement can properly be called Prelude. Hints can be held out that later movements in the composition will bring fulfilling satisfactions. The discord and dissonance of every age will be somehow resolved. From “in the beginning” and beyond it there is a Word. It is eternal, divine, and it sings its way from eternity then, all the way to the eternal someday. That living, creative, loving, healing Word is our pitch and keynote.

Just suppose that you knew Jesus Christ in the flesh. You are the last person alive who was chosen by him at the first to be an apostle to carry the cause. You are the author of a Gospel written especially to share information about Jesus Christ and give life and assurance to lost men and women. You now see a whole new set of challenges disturbing and distressing the congregations of believers. You know that a firm, fresh voice, an apostolic eyewitness, must be heard once more by the church. Some certain truths need to be affirmed as a bulwark against growing and insistent heresies. An epistle must be circulated through all the churches that will focus attention again on the realities of the historical Jesus Christ. The good Creator who became incarnate must be held up as central truth.