Dear Church Members,
When my eyes fall on the Third Epistle of John, my heart swells, particularly when I come to that bit about walking. John writes to his friend Gaius: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” Is there any greater joy for a pastor than to hear that those whom he’s labored for and loved with the truth are walking in it?
It may seem to many of us a simple task, walking. But walking in the truth? That’s a hazardous business. Christians don’t walk along sun-blanketed beaches with crystalline ocean at our feet. We walk through mine fields until we make our way home. The dangers, in this war of words, aren’t seen with the eye but heard with the ear. We might describe it as a Cold War against the truth. The dangers, spiritually speaking, are nothing short of nuclear.
WHAT IS SOUND DOCTRINE?
I’m writing to you, beloved, to reflect on how we can walk together more safely to our heavenly home. But how can we walk in the truth when it’s taking fire from every direction? How can we shield the gospel in all its brilliant
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