Do not imitate evil

18/05/2024 19 min Episodio 168
Do not imitate evil

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Episode Synopsis

There is tremendous conflict in the Christian Church in the U.S. and in the world today.  We look at a letter called 3 John, the shortest book in the New Testament, by number of words, and we get a glimpse of conflict in the very early Church.  We see that even at the very beginning of the Church, conflict like we have today arose.  In the letter, we see a man named Diotrephes who is apparently the source of conflict, a man who, because of his anger and his impatience, is imitating evil. We look at this in the context of a conversation that I had with a man who wanted very much to make things right, to make it clear to people from his past that he was no longer a man who stirred up conflict...