Notes.
Everyone likes to pass notes or send messages in school. They don’t have to be long or even say anything exciting. It’s just a way of staying close to friends.
John’s second letter is really just a note. It doesn’t reveal any startling new doctrine. It expresses John’s love and concern for others. The kind of love God wants you to have for your friends.
Make Mom and Dad Happy
• How to help in 2 John 4
Love? What’s Love?
• See the simple definition in 2 John 6
Preview
• This brief letter is one of three in the New Testament written by the apostle John.
• John is in his late 80’s as he writes this letter.
• He reminds us that what’s important is loving one another and obeying God’s commandments.
As John writes this brief note, the Emperor Domitian is persecuting Christians in the Roman Empire, an embassy from India is nearing Rome and Alexandria is emerging as a center of Christian scholarship.