Reflections with Andy - 2 John – 2 John - Gnosticism
About this episode
Andy reflects on the themes of Second John, emphasizing the importance of love as obedience and the warning against false teachers.
In this Wednesday reflection on Second John, the short letter is read in full and unpacked around its central warning: many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. John's call to love one another is clarified — love here is not emotion but obedience, commitment, and self-sacrifice — and his instruction not to welcome false teachers into the house is about guarding sound doctrine, not refusing hospitality to strangers. The heresy John ...
People in this episode
Host: Andy Stoddard
Topics covered
- Gnosticism
- Second John
- Christian doctrine
- love and obedience
- false teachers
Keywords
- Second John
- Gnosticism
- Christianity
- love
- false teachers
- doctrine
- obedience
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Second John
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