Jesus Prays for His Disciples’ Mission

Jesus prays for his disciples in John 17, focusing on their preservation and mission in a hostile world. He reveals the tension believers face as people who are in the world but not of it, consecrated for God's purposes. • Jesus prays that his disciples will have joy fulfilled in themselves • Being "in the world but not of it" creates both separation and opposition • Jesus doesn't pray for removal from the world but protection from the evil one • Isolation makes believers vulnerable to Satan...