For May 30, 2026
Children of the Living God by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
THE APOSTLE JOHN , who describes himself as “The elder” (2 John 1:1, 3 John 1:1), writes words of deep encouragement to the family of God throughout all three of his late-in-life letters to the faithful. The unifying thread of thought that has the deepest embedment in his comments is that of the grace of God to us in, by, and through Jesus that makes draws us all into the One. Speaking out of the spiritual corporal entity that Paul calls “the one body in Christ” (Rom. 12:5), he guides us firmly but gently into that sacred space. “We proclaim to you the eternal life. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:2-3) In his gospel, John says that Jesus “came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:11-12)