U6 L11 The Message: Third John

Question 1

What is the Theme of 3 John?

Answer 1

Christian Hospitality

Question 2

What does Catholic mean?

Answer 2

Of interest to all people, universal

Question 3

3 John is a brief note dealing with what?

Answer 3

problems in one of the churches

Question 4

Who was 3 John written to?

Answer 4

Gaius

Question 5

Was Gaius a common name?

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

How many Gaius’s are mentioned in the New Testament?

Answer 6

four

Question 7

Is the identity of the Gaius who 3 John is written to certain?

Answer 7

no

Question 8

Gaius is a man who walks in what?

Answer 8

the truth

Question 9

What are 3 of John’s prayers for Gaius and can be prayed for and expected by faith by every Christian?

Answer 9

• health of body
• health of soul
• prosperity

Question 10

In 3 John, he told Gaius to give hospitality to who?

Answer 10

evangelists and God’s servants

Question 11

John warns Gaius of who?

Answer 11

Diotrephes, trouble maker in church

Question 12

What are the characteristics of Gaius?

Answer 12

• refused to read John’s letters
• wouldn’t receive traveling evangelists
• excommunicated those form church who welcomed evangelists
• though highly of himself

Question 13

Who is the other man that John mentions in 3 John?

Answer 13

Demetrius

Question 14

Who could Demetrius be?

Answer 14

Ephesian silversmith mentioned in Acts 19:21

Question 15

Demetrius may have been converted under what?

Answer 15

John’s ministry

Question 16

What were 3 good witnesses of Demetrius’ life?

Answer 16

• good report from testimony of John
• good report from the brethren
• Holy Spirit

Question 17

Some people think 3 John was sent where? was this likely and why?

Answer 17

• Corinth, where one Gaius in the New Testament lived
• unlikely
• end of letter, John says he would shortly be with Gaius
• Ephesus far from Corinth
• John too old to travel that distance

Question 18

In summarizing the Johannine Epistles, we can describe them as what?

Answer 18

catholic or universal

Question 19

How universal were John’s 3 Epistles?

Answer 19

1- notably universal

2,3- less universal, more specific in designation

Question 20

Why were many books of minor prophets and minor Epistles ignored?

Answer 20

short/brief in length