Devotionals Sept 8 – Oct 7, 2022: 1, 2, and 3 John: The Marks of a True Christian

The group of churches that John writes to in this trio of epistles had recently experienced a split because of doctrinal controversy. We do not know the exact content of the error that these false teachers were spreading, but it is apparent from John’s writing that their teaching somehow denied the truth of the incarnation—that Jesus was both fully man and fully God. They deceived many people with this teaching and eventually convinced a group to leave with them. John references this group that...