Sermon Discussion Questions 1) Read and discuss the following quote from J.I. Packer: "Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord. The world today is full of sufferers from the wasting disease which Albert Camus focused as Absurdism (‘life is a bad joke’), and from the complaint which we may call Marie Antoinette’s fever, since she found the phrase that describes it (‘nothing tastes’). These disorders blight the whole of life: everything becomes at once a problem and a bore, because nothing seems worthwhile. But absurdist tapeworms and Antoinette’s fever are ills from which, in the nature of the case, Christians are immune, except for occasional spells of derangement when the power of temptation presses their mind out of shape-and these, by God’s mercy, do not last.” 
2) How can we know that we know God - that is, we not only know about Him, truthfully, but personally - and so have eternal life? (See also 1John 5:13; John 17:3). 
3) John writes to believers (in Asia Minor?) “concerning the word of life,” (v.1) not only so that they might have fellowship with them and, even more amazingly, the Trinity (v.3), but also so that “our joy might be complete,” (v.4). Why does including/affirming these believers’ into fellowship with God and the apostles bring joy to John? How have you experienced this joy?

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