What difference has the gospel of John made to your life so far?
We are now at the end of our series on John's gospel so there will be no more posts to this blog. However if you would still like to comment I will recieve notification of your contribution.
Thank you to those who have contributed and the blog will remain here for you to revisit the talks from the last six months or so.
Healing at the Pool of Bethesda Life through the Son Testimonies about Jesus Feeding the five thousand Waking on water Bread of Life Many people desert Jesus
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Ray, Sophie said... Reading through John again, one of my favourite verses is. "Your care for others is the measure of your greatness" What a difference our community would be if a movement was created to live out this verse!
reading in the CEV version I was struck again by the number of times that Jesus uses the phrase 'I tell you for certain' This is not a wishy washy Jesus but a man who knew his purpose and how he was going to achieve it. He also left his hearers in no doubt that he meant what he said. Though it may have been difficult for them (and us) to understand some of his speeches in this section He said then with an unerring belief and conviction. No wonder Peter says 'Lord there is no-one else we can go to'
Ray Just read John 3:8 Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it will go next, so it is with the sprit. we do not know on whom he will next bestow this life from heaven. Who knows what God can do in the next minute?
I was interested in what Shaun said on Sunday; about which of the people from the feeding of the five thousand story we might feel we are- Andrew, Philip, the child or someone in the crowd. I have struggled since coming home from Taizé to describe what sort of experience I had there, and on Sunday I felt relieved to be able to describe it for myself as the feeling of being among the crowd; being fed. Certainly, at Taizé, we were a great multitude of people sitting on a hillside, learning about God and being graciously provided with food. There was a strong emphasis on making sure everyone had their basic needs met. Everyone had made their own journeys, both physically and otherwise to be there. It was a very moving thing to observe. I’m sure people in the crowd at the feeding of the five thousand; seeing a miracle in front of them must have found it hard to describe what they had seen and experienced - if they even knew, and maybe they didn't.
Introduction to John's gospel by Eugene H Peterson taken from "The Message"
In deliberate parallel to the opening words of Genesis, John presents God as speaking salvation into existence. This time God's word takes on human form and enters history in the person of Jesus. Jesus speaks the word and it happens: forgiveness and judgement, healing and illumination, mercy and grace, joy and love, freedom and resurrection. Everything broken and fallen, sinful and diseased, called into salvation by God's spoken word.
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Ray, Sophie said...
Reading through John again, one of my favourite verses is.
"Your care for others is the measure of your greatness"
What a difference our community would be if a movement was created to live out this verse!
reading in the CEV version I was struck again by the number of times that Jesus uses the phrase 'I tell you for certain' This is not a wishy washy Jesus but a man who knew his purpose and how he was going to achieve it. He also left his hearers in no doubt that he meant what he said. Though it may have been difficult for them (and us) to understand some of his speeches in this section He said then with an unerring belief and conviction. No wonder Peter says 'Lord there is no-one else we can go to'
Ray
Just read John 3:8
Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it will go next, so it is with the sprit. we do not know on whom he will next bestow this life from heaven.
Who knows what God can do in the next minute?
I was interested in what Shaun said on Sunday; about which of the people from the feeding of the five thousand story we might feel we are- Andrew, Philip, the child or someone in the crowd.
I have struggled since coming home from Taizé to describe what sort of experience I had there, and on Sunday I felt relieved to be able to describe it for myself as the feeling of being among the crowd; being fed. Certainly, at Taizé, we were a great multitude of people sitting on a hillside, learning about God and being graciously provided with food. There was a strong emphasis on making sure everyone had their basic needs met. Everyone had made their own journeys, both physically and otherwise to be there. It was a very moving thing to observe.
I’m sure people in the crowd at the feeding of the five thousand; seeing a miracle in front of them must have found it hard to describe what they had seen and experienced - if they even knew, and maybe they didn't.
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