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We’ve started traveling through the Gospel of John in our weekly evos on the Student Parking site. Here’s the first one.
I don’t know anybody famous. Ever been around someone who “drops names” - tells you all the people they know or have hung out with? I’m not one of those people.
I’ve got a picture of my dad with Bear Bryant. I once stood with 20 yards of the greatness of the Bear. But that’s as close as I get.
Besides that, most of the time when people brag about famous people they know - they don’t really know them. In my mind - if you can’t pick up the phone and call them AND they know who you are - you don’t know them.
I guess I’d like to know someone famous but if that is going to happen - it’s going to have to be through a friend or something. I’ve got no connections.
And even though the popular theory on the planet right now is that any one of us is only 7 degrees from Kevin Bacon, you gotta figure any “famous encounters” will be brief and highly over-hyped and not exactly lead to a long-term relationship.
“Hey, John Elway. I just bought a family pack to your Arena Football team. Wanna go fishing this weekend?”
That’s what strikes me so odd about John’s (the disciple, not the quarterback) words here in this chapter - God became flesh and made the unknowable knowable. For years, humanity has wondered - is there a God? If there is - how can we know him? It’s Jesus. You meet Jesus, you see Jesus, you encounter Jesus - that’s meeting, seeing, encountering God.
Want an inside track on knowing the Creator of the Universe? Look to Jesus.
There had to be some let down - I mean - a Jewish carpenter? He looked a lot like every other Jewish male probably. But there he was (is).
As we start the Gospel of John - that’s the premise of the whole book. This Jesus - he’s God. All of the stories and the miracles that John tells us about - it’s for the purpose to prove to us that Jesus is like no other.
This is going to be great ride.
4 responses so far ↓
1 clay // Mar 5, 2007 at 11:28 am
is john the only book of the bible you know how to go through? haha.
2 Grant // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:33 am
No - but I thought Leviticus was to much of a jump for our youth group.
3 clay // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:58 pm
leviticus maybe, but there is still numbers, which you may not have many of if you actually teach numbers.
4 Gospel of John E-vos | the G sides // Nov 6, 2007 at 11:24 am
[...] John 1:1-18, Knowing the Unknowable John 1:19-28, I Can’t Untie His Thongs John 2, Water To Pinot Noir John 3, Jesus The Philosopher John 4:1-42, You Are Talking To Who?? John 4:43-5:15, What Do You Really Want? John 5:16-47, Say What? John 6, An Inconvenient Truth John 7, The Real Secret John 8:1-11, Often Preached, Seldom Done John 8, Son of Satan John 9, What If There’s No Reason? John 10:1-21, Polarizing Jesus John 10:22-42, Someone Has To Be It John 11, But The Smell… John 12:1-11, More Than You Bargained For John 12:12-50, Unbelievability Of It All John 13, You Don’t Know The Power Of The Dark Side John 14, I Can’t Wait Till I Grow Up John 15, What Grows On This Vine? John 16, Doing God A Favor John 17, Ruin Them Then Send Them Back John 18, Is That Your Own Idea John 19:1-14, More Like Pilate John 19:15-42, The Death Of Hope John 20, Unexpected Appearances John 21, Let’s Try This Again And See If You Remember Anything Tags: Gospel of John, Weekly Evos [...]
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