For November 4, 2026
Reasons To Stay In Touch by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
IN HIS SECOND LETTER , John warns about antichrists. This ‘book’ and the one that follows are the two shortest letters in our bible; this is second shortest, but actually has fewer verses. In it, the Apostle John, here in his old age— “The elder ”—writes tenderly to a beloved friend. “To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever.” (2 John 1:1-2) There is no internal evidence to tell us who this woman and her children are, but she and they are esteemed by John, and also considered firmly as one of the elect of God. The truth that is forever is this shared knowledge, one that is central to all in the long generations of Christ-followers: “Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.” (2 John 1:3)