"4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work."
As we see in 2 John, John has only one reason for writing the letter, and it has nothing to do with loving the "poor/oppressed" in the way Dan says we should. He focuses on Truth, obedience, and the importance of the doctrine of the incarnation.
As we increase the context, it becomes more and more clear that Dan's out of context, cherry picked, proof texts, are not the primary focus of John's epistles and are at best secondary.
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