Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. Okay guys we're back in action, all right? Thank you so much for being here. I am so

excited for this study and to spend this time with you together.

This is going to launch us into a whole new area

of the word of God and truth.

And as you know, we have finished the Book of Romans and we took have taken a little time off.

And so we're back and jumping into the deep into the pool and ready to swim through an incredible book in the Bible, which is the

book of 1st John, and this book has had enormous impact in my life and ministry in the past and that's not really

the reason I'm doing this.

I just think that this is the book we need to study.

The truths that are contained in this book

really has to be at the head of our list. So, and it's so different from Romans, different author, different focus, and so this is not going

to be an overlap with Romans, this is going to be in tandem with the book of Romans.

So welcome for those of you who have never been in our Bible study before.

We're thrilled that you're here.

Please continue to come back.

We're going to be here, I think for the next three Thursdays in a

row, so we're going to just be laying down some truth. Today we're going to be doing a survey and introduction to the book

of 1st John and next week Lord willing we'll be starting the verse by verse journey through this book. But I need to

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