 to protect the recipients of such letters. So some would say that the elder, as John is writing to the lady chosen by God and to her children, that he was writing to the lady who had a church that met in her home. They didn't meet very often in places like we're meeting today at Emmanuel Baptist Church on 2505 West Owen K. Garrett and Enid, Oklahoma. They didn't have these big physical edifices that people would come to.