Pastor's Post

Dear People

Sunday's a comin’ and I’m excited!  Tomorrow is the second message in our series, The Gospel Of John – That You May Believe.  Last week we introduced John by looking at the preliminaries – author, date of writing, comparison to the Synoptic Gospels, and an outline of the book.  I would encourage you to keep that outline in your Bible as we study John in the months to come.  If you didn’t get one, I’ll put some in the lobby in the Main Entrance, and on the table in the North Entrance.  And then after the preliminaries, we examined the purpose of John’s Gospel, which in short form is – that you may believe, and in long form is found in John 20:31, “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”  The purpose, the theme, of this great book is that we may believe that Jesus is The Christ – The Savior, and that He is The Son of God – the second eternal person of God Himself.

Tomorrow’s message is entitled, “Jesus Christ, The Word Of God.”  With this we will embark upon the first five verses of chapter one which is the beginning of the prologue of John (vs 1-18) where He introduces the theme and the main topics of his Gospel.  Not the least of which, as we will study thoroughly tomorrow, the fact that Jesus is God.  We’ll examine this all-important foundational truth, and another one as well.  I’m so thrilled to be preaching through the Gospel of John!  I’ve wanted to for a very long time.  And again, I’m excited for tomorrow.  Looking forward to worshiping and fellowshipping with you!

Christ Is Life

Randy