This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
1 John 2:5b-6

1. TEST #2: We who claim to be Christians and have our lives found in Christ, do we ____________ like ____________?

2. This is not a call to be _____________ like Jesus because we are not ______________.

3. In our ___________ then, we are to walk as Jesus walked, in complete ____________ and ____________ towards our neighbor.

4. Jesus' love and forgiveness, given to us by the Holy Spirit, is the ____________ and ___________ of our lives of love.


Scripture Readings
1 John 2:5b-8

Take It With You!

As we spend our Summer growing in the love of God, it will be helpful for everyone to be reading through 1 John daily. Here helpful insights will be offered to aid in your study.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:3-8

The fruits of the Spirit, however, are the works that the Spirit of God, who dwells in believers, effects through the reborn; they are done by believers (insofar as they are reborn) as if they knew of no command, threat, or reward. In this manner the children of God live in the law and walk according to the law of God-what St. Paul in his epistles calls the law of Christ and the law of the mind. And yet they are not "under the law but under grace" (Rom. 7:23 and 8:1, 14).
The Epitome of the Formula of Concord VI 5