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Maximum Joy: 1 John—Relationship or Fellowship? is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Maxiumum Joy, David R. Anderson offers a warm, thoughtful, and thorough exposition of John’s first epistle. Working section by section, Anderson unfolds the riches of this New Testament book, guiding readers to see how 1 John is really “a book about intimacy and love between the believer and God and between believer and believer.” Offering a pastoral treatment of 1 John, Anderson notes that...

We have entered the second wave in John’s presentation of the principles of fellowship. These were introduced in the first section of the body of this letter, and now he is developing these principles. In each principle he deals with one of the primary barriers preventing us from getting closer to God in our Christian walk or fellowship. Our sin is a major barrier. He has dealt with that twice: 1 John 1:5−2:2 and 1 John 2:28−3:10a. Now he wants to develop the
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