Bible study course
An incisive academic and pastoral study of the Second Epistle of John, exploring its Johannine authorship from Ephesus, its address to the elect lady and her children as a personified sister house church, its essential synthesis of truth (aletheia) and love (agape), its stern apostolic warning against traveling docetic deceivers who deny Jesus Christ coming in the flesh, its pastoral policy regarding church hospitality and false teachers, and its longing for completed joy through face-to-face communion.
An orienting academic introduction to 2 John, examining its epistolary genre as a personal apostolic miniature, the self designation of John as the elder, the symbolic identity of the elect lady and her children, the historical crisis of itinerant docetic deceivers across Asia Minor, and the theological synthesis of truth and love.
An advanced theological exposition of 2 John 1-13, examining the joy of finding believers walking in truth, the commandment to love one another from the beginning, the stern warning against docetic deceivers who deny Christ flesh, the danger of forfeiting a full reward, the prohibition against offering hospitality to false teachers, and the apostolic longing for completed joy through face-to-face communion.