The Gospel is the predetermined plan, incarnation, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, and impending return of Jesus and all of its effects. Because of this, Christians live for a day because they have been changed by a day.

Tonight we unpack this statement in our text: Jesus has called us to Gospel life and mission. His enemies seek to replace truth and destroy assurance, but God has provided for our perseverance.

3 John provides us with practical insight for leadership in the church.

In this week's passage, John addresses three groups of people in the church: spiritual children, the spiritually growing, and the spiritually mature. He encourages them but also warns them that the kingdom of this world seeks to take away our attention from the kingdom of God.

This week's passage help's us tackle two questions; how do we know Jesus and what is his will? We learn that these are more that what we realize and start in our hearts before they are ever worked out in our lives.

John lays out two truths for us. God is light and in Him there is no darkness and we are sinners. As we look at tonight's passage we can either believe the lies of the darkness and live in them or believe the truth of the light and walk in it.

In our last session we see that we are not only called out to righteousness but we are also called to take the Gospel to the world around us.

In this session, we look at care and how we cultivate the Gospel.

In this session, we look at mission and how to participate in the Gospel.

In this session, we look at how discipleship helps us to grow in the Gospel.