1st John: Living in Christ: Bible Study/Commentary Series

By Steve Copland

What has happened to the evangelical Church? Many professing Christians have no idea what it means to forsake the world. Their double-lives are full of compromise, worldliness, and often, immorality. From a biblical perspective one might ask 'are they Christian at all'? In his first letter to the Churches, John confronts the heresy of Docetism, and offers twelve marks of a true Christian by which individuals may test themselves to know if they are truly in Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Copland
• Release date: Aug 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463029732

Steve Copland

Steve Copland is a self-supported missionary from New Zealand, serving The Lord in Ukraine since 2003. He is member of the pastoral team at New Life evangelical church in Kiev. He lectures on Systematic Theology and Church History at the Ukraine Evangelical Seminary, and also Biblical Studies, Apologetics and Church History at the International Christian University in Kiev.

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