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When to fight and when to compromise are not always easy choices to make. Stubbornly defending the truth can easily end up in arrogance that discredits the gospel, while too readily seeking middle ground can leave truth by the wayside. Torn by conflict and marred by schism, the congregation to whom John addressed his letters stood in need of his strong exhortations to love and unity within the...

☐ Remembering Who We Are: The Children of God (2:28–3:24) One can hardly dispute that the ways in which Christians speak about their understanding of and relationship to God strike non-Christians as ludicrous at best and arrogant at worst. To claim to know God’s will surely sounds presumptuous; to claim to know God just a bit preposterous. And the claim that we are children of God probably smacks of both. After all, how can people of flesh and blood be children of an eternal being who is Spirit (Jn