Johannine

Community
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What is a
community?
Community is defined as a unified body of
individuals.

Or people with common interests living in a particular area.

Introduction
The Johannine community is the earliest
community who were or who are Jewish
Christians who believed that the Christian
faith was continuous with Jewish faith and
were content to live within the context of a
Jewish community.
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How was it formed?
The Johannine Community was
formed by Christians who gathered
and followed the “Beloved
Disciple”.
What did the community
experience?
However, the community
experienced expulsion from their
religious home in the synagogue.
This expulsion had a mighty effect
on the Christian community,
producing a trauma of faith of
major proportions.
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It was amid this crisis that the fourth
evangelist gathered the traditions of
the community and interpreted them
to address the needs of the newly
isolated community,
While the crisis of the expulsion
from the synagouge had been
resolved and the community was
an independent christian body.
There appeared some internal
conflicts over the interpretation
of the original gospel of john in
general and proper belief and
practice in particular.
As Christians faced various
tensions and challenges the
gospel of John pendants
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Community
Jesus praying for unity among his followers
(John 17) and insisting that they love one
another ( John 13: 34-35) (Anderson 2015).

Furthermore, in the Johannine apostles

( 1 John 3:1 1-4: 12; 2 John 1:5)
The new commandment in the gospel became
an old commandment to emphasize the need
for unity and charity among the members of
the Christian community.
Lets answer!
Q1 : It is defined as a unified body of
individuals?

Q2 : What is the religion of the early

Johannine Christians?

Fill in the blank!

- The first Johannine community was

formed by Christians who gathered and
followed the
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take on the Johannine
Community!

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