I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. 3 John 1:9
John the beloved apostle wrote to Gaius a short letter with an important complaint, there was a person in the church who did not receive the brethren. It seems that within a short period of time from the church beginning at Pentecost, there was already one who did not want anything to do with hosting the traveling apostles. And that wasn't all, as John tells of malicious words from this Diotrephes. Now short in this case might mean 30 years or more, but it kind of shatters my wishful illusion of a new church growing by leaps and bounds with harmony among all the saints. Sometimes that did happen, but other times we read of people just being darn poop heads too!
Praise God that Jesus brought redemption to us all,
Bucky
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