The Letters of John are the words of God through someone who as a young man was deeply shaped by intimacy with Jesus and who now, as one who has become an old sage through a lifetime of abiding, writes to call drifting people back into fellowship with the One who is life and light, while urging the faithful into a deeper rooted life in Jesus. Across all three letters, John is showing that life in the true Jesus becomes visible in what a church believes, how a church loves, and whom a church welcomes or resists