In this session we discussed not one but two verses. In verse 5, we finally get to the message, the proclamation itself that John has been setting up in the first four verses. But it sounds like we might be the ones getting set up! In verse 6, John drops the hammer.

In this session we finished discussing the first paragraph of 1 John 1, looking at the significance of joy's fulness and the awesomeness of John's pronoun usage.

For those following (more or less) live: there will be no new study until April 10, 2022, as I will be traveling the next few weekends. In April, we'll get to the actual message!

Today we get to the main verb and finish the whole first sentence of 1 John! John announces his intention to proclaim ... something, but then instead of actually proclaiming it, he explains why he is going to proclaim it. And the primary reason he gives is probably not what we thought it was going to be. Surprises and twists abound this week, as we discuss 1 John 1:3!

Having just mentioned the Word of Life stuff, John interrupts himself in 1:2 to tell us more, not about the Word, but about the Life, and how it is related both to us and to God.

Also, we have started a discussion board in a Slack workspace. If you would like to join us for discussion and sharing, send me a note in the Contact Form at the bottom of the homepage at studentsoftheword.org, and we'll send you an invitation to join us!

In this session, we discuss the rest of 1 John 1:1 (yep, the whole verse!). Questions discussed: Which arche? Who is the "we" in all these clauses? What is the logic of the progression of the noun clauses, and what do they suggest about our relationship to the Word of Life?

In this first episode, Corey gives an introduction to the Bible study, explaining what we are and are not setting out to do in these sessions. After answering a lot of questions, we do finally start discussions, which get almost as far as "the beginning".