Chuck Lamattina

1 John Chuck Lamattina

Let's imagine for a moment. You live in a world where people do not believe in absolute truth. There are a plurality of religions, some with one god and some with many. New forms of spirituality are emerging combining paganism and philosophy. There is a religion of the state where the chief political leader is a god. Even people who call themselves Christian are rejecting what the apostles taught for new doctrines and new forms of morality. And the concept of one way of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ is considered too strict, ignorant and arrogant. The world I'm describing sounds a lot like our own, doesn't it? But I'm talking about the world of the apostle John, near the end of the first century. The Christians to whom John wrote were living in uncertain and changing times, just like the time in which you and I live.