{"id":1765,"date":"2010-04-01T07:02:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2010-04-03T21:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:44:37","slug":"3-john-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"3 John 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Text: 3 John 1 (English Standard Version)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1<\/strong> The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

2<\/strong> Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.<\/span>3<\/strong> For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.<\/span>4<\/strong> I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

5<\/strong> Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,<\/span>6<\/strong> who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.<\/span>7<\/strong> For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.<\/span>8<\/strong> Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

9<\/strong> I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.<\/span>10<\/strong> So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.<\/span><\/p>\n

11<\/strong> Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.<\/span>12<\/strong> Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.<\/span><\/p>\n

13<\/strong> I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.<\/span>14<\/strong> I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.<\/span><\/p>\n

15<\/strong> Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.<\/span><\/div>\n

Takeaways:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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  • There is a huge difference between genuine and false leadership.<\/li>\n
  • Verse 4 reminds me of all of the godly teachers, coaches, youth leaders, pastors, and other adults that have invested in my life over the years. \u00a0It also causes me to reflect over all of the students I have had a chance to minister to over the years. \u00a0There is honestly nothing that makes me happier than to hear that they are walking with the Lord and running hard after Him.<\/li>\n
  • We are called to imitate good and point people to Jesus.<\/li>\n
  • I love the last verse…Greet the friends, every one of them. \u00a0I think that is a huge statement towards relational evangelism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Text: 3 John 1 (English Standard Version) 1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. 2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}