What is our position as followers of Jesus in this world? How are we to relate to the world around us as God’s gathered people?
We are in the same world as everybody else. We are subject to the same things that they are. We are all here in this moment of history. But our relationship to Jesus has changed everything.
The letter that we call 1 John is focused on the Christian and the world. The background and setting to the teaching is summed up well in 1 John 5:19:
“We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
There is the tension that John knows that every believer, in every generation, will feel.
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