The book of I John: a prologue

What is my favorite book of the bible? The book of I John. No question about it.

Now let us not get I John confused with the gospel of John, which is a better-known book. No I am talking about the little book in the back of the bible. I John. I John plays “Bleach” to the Gospel of John’s “Nevermind” in the sense that The Gospel of John is mainstream and I John is a book you later stumble upon and say to yourself “Did he put this one out too? How did I miss that?”

What I like about I John is that it gives it to you both barrels; it reloads and gives you both barrels again. I John is plain and simply a punch to the gut, a drop kick to the face, a blaring bugle call in the early morning. I John starts by wrecking your preconceived notions about what it means to walk with Christ and ends with putting to flame the idea that one can walk with the world and God. There is no gray area with I John; there is no “and” and “both”. All there is God who is light and you who may not be walking in the light and that is where I found myself back in 2003 alone in an apartment, reading this little book. *pow*

And that is why I am going to cover this book on my blog in the coming months.

Stay tuned