The Ubiquity of NT Teaching

Recently someone asked, more or less, the following question: “How do we know that the things that were done in one church in the first century were done in the other churches as well?” That’s a good question because if we can’t know that the things practiced, say, in Corinth, were also practiced in Rome, then we can’t really know that we ought to practice the same things that they practiced in religion today.

A VeryImportantPost. Many claim that there's such a diversity of teaching among churches of the NT that it is wrong to hold to a unity of gospel doctrine

John's short letters show a single concern

 

The apostle John wrote the letters of 1-3 John probably within the same general situation, or occasion, and shows a central concern in all
three, that of preaching, and supporting, the truth and not false doctrine.

Three imperatives (command verbs) in each of the letters seem to capture the emphasis of each one. See those HERE.

Together, the letters emphasize the need, still acute today, for discernment between truth and error and how we should support the (preaching of the) truth and how we should refuse to support error.