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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...

The Children of God Have Confidence in Prayer (5:13–17) The passage before us promises believers that if we ask anything according to [God’s] will, he hears us. It also seems, however, to promise that whatever we ask we are granted. The boldness spoken of here is not brashness to challenge the will of God, but the confidence that God’s will is done, and that in part it is effected through the prayers of faithful Christians. We turn, then, to this passage both to discern what that will of God is
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