Happily, there is no whiff of guilt-based rhetoric. Readers are not shamed or pressured into shallow demonstrations of mock concern. Rather, we are encouraged to consider how we can be agents of God’s grace and compassion in light of what Jesus has done for us.
John assumes, rather than seeks to prove, the existence of God. But he makes the astounding claim that it is Jesus who makes God known. Jesus expounds God; he explains God in detail.
A student from a Buddhist background had been reading Uncover John with one of the AFES staff on his Gold Coast campus for several months. He turned to Christ after hearing a sermon from John 11.
Imagine in 2024 thousands of people in our country encountering Jesus. Imagine hundreds of them them being disrupted by him, changed by him, finding life in him. Actually, instead of just imagining it, how about we work and pray together to see it happen?
One of the joy-filled surprises of 1 John is that the apostle wants Christians to be encouraged by the signs of God at work in them.
