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How can we know that we possess eternal life? The apostle John lays out the answer in his three eponymous epistles. John answers that we must first believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that Christ came in the flesh. Second, we are to obey God’s commandments. Third, we must love others. In this illuminating and engaging commentary on John’s letters, pastor-scholar Douglas Sean O’Donnell...

bemoaned.2 We wonder: What is “which,” and who is “we,” and what does “we” have to say about “which” to “you”? We wonder whether we have jumped into a Dr. Seuss book. Admittedly, the pronouns can be perplexing in this opening sentence that runs rhythmically for nearly three verses and includes a parenthesis.3 Yet the message itself is plain enough: divine fellowship demands apostolic fellowship. Put metaphorically, if we want to hold the hand of God (stay in fellowship with him), we must hold the
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