S4:306 3 John, Jude

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Christian, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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"Come prepared to give a brief contextual overview of each books - don't summarize each book, share any details we need to know about author, audience, and main themes. Then be ready to answer the following: 1. In 3 John, we see a contrast between Gaius, who shows hospitality to gospel workers, and Diotrephes, who refuses them. What does this teach us about the role of hospitality in advancing the mission of the church? 2. Jude urges believers to ‘contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints’ (v. 3). What does it look like to contend for the faith without becoming quarrelsome or divisive? 3. Jude ends with one of the most powerful doxologies in the New Testament—God is able to keep us from stumbling. How does that promise encourage believers in the face of both personal weakness and external opposition? (Please make sure to include a personal example in at least one of the questions) D-Town Registration Hebrews 13:2; John 13:34-35; 1 Peter 3:15 Link Judges episode Link D-Town Registration You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast: Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SG7aaE1ZjjFkgB34G8zp3?si=c960a63736904665 Check out the Join The Journey Website for today's devotional and more resources! https://www.jointhejourney.com/ Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Watermark-Community-Church/author/B0BRYP5MQK?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1755623322&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=8aeeec3b-6c1c-416d-87ae-5dfbbb6981df"

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0:00.0	Now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but know that it's never
0:05.2	too late to start and we're in this together. Thanks for journeying with us. And here's your host, Emma,
0:12.5	daughter. Thanks for joining this Advent season. We are finishing year of the word strong. And today,
0:18.3	we are reading Third John and Jude, and I'm in the podcast studio
0:22.5	with one of our Watermark students, staff members. It's Ben Brown. What's up, Emma? Ben, it is good
0:29.6	to have you back. It's good to be here. You've been here before. We'll link your testimony in the
0:34.3	description. I want to know, Ben, when you were in middle school,
0:38.1	as you lead middle schoolers in our church, what was the Christmas present you were really
0:42.8	hoping you would get? What do you remember? Middle school years? I was a video game nerd.
0:49.1	Were you? I would not have guessed that. So it could have been Lego Star Wars. Oh, yeah.
0:54.0	Maybe the newest Super Smash Bros. Just any of those. And so that would have been the one for sure. Well, then, I mean, gosh, you're perfect for the job. Right. If those were what got you excited, that's amazing. Ben, the Students' Ministry has a big event coming up, February 6th and 7th. Tell us about it. Yeah, so we have
1:12.2	this little thing called D-Town, just the little thing. Little thing where we will pack so many
1:17.7	students here on our campus at Watermark for a weekend of teaching, worship, and a lot of fun. And so
1:24.7	sign up, it's going to be amazing. That's 6th through 12th grade. It's going to be amazing. That's six through 12th grade.
1:28.6	It's going to be great.
1:29.7	Love it. That is so fun. We will put that information in the episode description, but it's in February,
1:35.2	and we got to get to today's reading. So let's start with third John. Ben, what do we need to know
1:40.8	about third John? Well, third John, there's a theory that it was included in the packet
1:46.0	with first and second john which would make sense first john was written in a way that it would
1:52.2	easily have been distributed to churches in the region second john was written in a way specifically to
1:59.7	gaias who we know as an elder or pastor in that time,
2:03.8	it would be written to his church.
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