First Reading
1 John 5:5-13
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth, that Christ is the truth.
7And there are three who give teaching in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.
8And there are three that give teaching on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are one.
9If we receive the teaching of men, the teaching of God is greater. For this is the teaching of God, which is greater, because he has testified of his Son.
10He that believes in the Son of God, has the teaching of God in himself. He that believes not the Son, makes him a liar: because he believes not in the teaching which God has testified of his Son.
11And this is the teaching, that God has given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son.
12The one who has the Son, has life. The one who has not the Son, has not life.
13These things I write to you, that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.