John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change
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One thing is certain - we live in uncertain and fast-changing times! Using the change and uncertainty that was experienced as the Year 2000 approached as an illustration, Bible teacher Brian Johnston draws from the writings of the Apostle John to provide reassurance of things that John wanted his readers to be certain about - about salvation, about Jesus Christ, and about the future!
Brian Johnston
Born and educated in Scotland, Brian worked as a government scientist until God called him into full-time Christian ministry on behalf of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info). His voice has been heard on Search For Truth radio broadcasts for over 30 years (visit www.searchfortruth.podbean.com) during which time he has been an itinerant Bible teacher throughout the UK and Canada. His evangelical and missionary work outside the UK is primarily in Belgium and The Philippines. He is married to Rosemary, with a son and daughter.
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John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change - Brian Johnston
Table of Contents
John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
Further Reading: A Test of Commitment: 15 Challenges to Stimulate Your Devotion to Christ
Also By Brian Johnston
About the Author
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JOHN’S EPISTLES
CERTAINTY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE:
BY BRIAN JOHNSTON
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CHAPTER ONE
For some people the future had never seemed so uncertain. While the British public had been presented with the Millennium Dome; in Israel another project was dubbed ‘the Millennium Doom’. During the approach to the new millennium, media reports were anticipating that Israel would use computer technology to thrill millions of millennium pilgrims expected to flock to the biblical site of Armageddon, the world’s ultimate battlefield. This proposal for multimedia visitor centres using virtual reality features led cynics to snipe that the end of the world may be virtually nigh. The location in the valley of Jezreel, overlooked by the Mount of Megiddo, stands astride the old trunk route from Egypt to Syria, and has been the scene of mighty battles throughout history.
The last book of the Bible, the Revelation given by Christ to his beloved disciple, John, is a book of awesome apocalyptic visions of the future; with Armageddon being the scene of a final battle. The writings of the apostle John are well accepted as being among the last New Testament documents to be written. They are generally accepted as being written towards the close of the first century, by which time John would have been an old man in his nineties. No doubt uncertainties abounded as the first century came to its close, much in the same way as anxieties and fears shrouded the minds of a great many people at the turn of this millennium. John’s writings were timely then for countering the views of heretics, which were gaining ground. One thing that is fascinating as you read John’s letters is that some of the unorthodox and even bizarre notions that were around then are once again in vogue after almost two thousand years.
To read John’s letters is to enter another world altogether, a world whose characteristic marks are assurance, confidence and boldness. If even today, people around us are being swept up in a current of anxiety, it is here in John’s writings that we can fall back on a stockpile of assurances. To read these letters again, against all