This weekend, we continue our sermon series
Portraits of the Christ by delving into the Gospel of John, the most unique of the gospels. John tells the story of Jesus significantly differently than the other writers, and his literary genius is never clearer than in his prologue:
"In the beginning was the word" he says. "And the word was with God and the word was God...."
John starts his Gospel that way because he knows his readers are not interested primarily in the facts of Jesus' birth but in the significance of it, just as people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their lives were charged with new significance.
This larger purpose is central not only to John's prologue but to the whole structure and content of his Gospel. He tells the story of Jesus not so much for the facts, but so that our lives will be charged with new significance. For this weekend's sermon, I've selected three brief passages that illustrate John's intent.
You can read them here.
Worship will also be enriched by four baptisms across our services and our new playground dedication
between services at 10:30 a.m. Come, and bring a friend.
Warmly,
