zion summer elective 2011

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1-3 John

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1-3 John: By This We Knowloving and obeying in deed and truth

1-3 John in Composition: Putting it Together• see page 3 for structure proposals

Departures from “Typical” Epistles

1 John’s Structure

2-3 John

Common Themes and “Canon Awareness”

1-3 John in Message: Theology1 JohnWhat does the introduction to 1 John (chpt. 1) tell us the book is about?___________ through ______ ___________ by faithful _____________ to _____________

1 John helps believers:________ faith in others (thus __________ false teachers) and________ faith in oneself (thus ___________ others and self)by “bringing _______ to bear.”

By This We KnowFaith is confirmed both by ________ (to what they ____) and also by _________ (what they ___).Faith is affirmed not by merely ________ (the _____) but by ________ (loving like ________, in _____ and _____ ).

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1 John in Detail: 2.28-3.10

We ________ to God’s love that gives us _____ by acting like the __________ He’s made us to be.Those who ______ … _______.

E. Practice Righteousness (2.28-3.10) 1. Introduction: Children Do as Their Father, 2.28-29 2. Children of God: Purifying in Hope, 3.1-3 3. Doers of Sin: Lawless, Blind, Unknowing, 3.4-6! 4.! Spiritual Genetics (or: Who’s Your Daddy?), 3.7-9 5. Conclusion: Children Do as Their Father, 3.10

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1 John Structure ProposalI. Prologue: Eyewitness Authentication of the Incarnation (1.1-4)II. By This We Know: Criteria for the Reality of Christian Profession (1.5-5.12) A. Acknowledge, Confess, and Avoid Sin (1.5-2.2) B. Keep Commandments by Copying Christ (2.3-14) C. Do Not Love the World (2.15-17) D. Reject False Teachers (2.18-27) E. Practice Righteousness, (2.28-3.10) F. Love Each Other (3.11-24) G. Believe in the Incarnated Christ (4.1-6) H. Love Each Other (4.7-12) I. Summary of Criteria, 4.13-5.3 J. Assurance of Salvation for Those Living Faith, 5.4-12III. Conclusion (5.13-21) A. Purpose in Writing: That You May Know, 5.13 B. Pray for Each Other, 5.14-17 C. Know the Son; No Sin or Idols, 5.18-21outline a synthesis from Terry L. Wilder, J. Daryl Charles, and Kendell Easley, Faithful to the End (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2007), 199-200 and Colin G. Kruse, The Letters of John (PNTC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).

2 John Structure ProposalI. Epistolary Introduction and Greeting (1-3)II. Love Fellow Believers (4-6)III. Refuse Support to False Teachers Who Reject Apostolic Doctrine (7-11)IV. Closing (12-13)

3 John Structure ProposalI. Epistolary Introduction and Greeting (1-4)II. Commendation of Gaius (5-8)III. Condemnation of Diotrephes (9-10)IV. Commendation of Demetrius (11-12)IV. Closing (13-14)2-3 John outlines from Wilder, Faithful to the End, 204-5.

Preparing for JudeReading

1. read Jude this week, preferably in one sitting2.read Jude a second time this week, in a different translation3. while reading, write down answers to the questions below

Study Questions1. Structure: Can you sketch the major sections (salutation,

introduction, parts of the body, benediction)? This might be a little more challenging in this letter! Enjoy.

2. Message: Jude should sound a lot like (part of) another General Epistle. Which one? Why do you think they sound so much alike?Message: Jude is the last GE. How does it wrap things up?Message: Jude is at a “seam” in canon. How does it relate to the next book across the “seam?”

3. Passage: Pay particular attention to … the entire book!Jude is dripping with OT context. Get out your concordance! Each time an OT character, place, incident, or reference is made, look it up. What was going on back there that Jude is referencing? (e.g. what was Korah’s rebellion? who did it? when? why? what happened?)

Try to write in one sentence Jude’s message. Hey, it’s not that long a book!

4.Incarnation: How do we and you need to live Jude?