December is a great time to have a gospel conversation – Jesus’s birth is being celebrated all month long! But that doesn’t make it easy exactly to strike up a conversation about Him or casually work Him in to your current discussion. Here’s the good news: sharing the gospel doesn’t have to be lengthy or…
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John wrote his gospel so that his readers might “believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20: 31). Throughout the gospel of John we see that Jesus is the Son of God and the Son of Man. He came to…
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John’s gospel may be my favorite gospel. Like the other three gospel accounts, the Gospel of John gives us a good sense of Jesus’s earthly ministry and helps us understand His message of repentance. But, it’s also focused on the identity of Jesus – who He is and what He came to do. For me,…
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One of the striking realities about John’s Gospel is that he wrote using simple Greek, the everyday words and grammar used in the markets, yet his Gospel is far from simple. He talked about the Word existing before creation and then that same Word taking on flesh in the creation He formed. John used simple…
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The gospel is not merely a formula for salvation. We need to see our mission as more than merely getting students to understand and believe the gospel. Creation → Fall → Redemption → Restoration. The gospel is not a ticket out of this world but an invitation to start engaging the world in a meaningful and…
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