Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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Preparing for this week’s gospel, we should remember the context is in the midst of Holy Week, amid the effort to silence Jesus.
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This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.
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What it means to love, to offer ourselves, to give and become different, is much bigger than any slogan we can come up with.
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The idea of putting a verse’s notation out into the world, hoping someone will open a Bible and be converted to Christ is just weird.
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Before we can jump into John 3:16 and God’s love for the world, we should take a minute to talk about Jesus’s visit with Nicodemus.
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What Jesus is up to in the Temple is distracting. But not nearly as much as our attempts to avoid dealing with his critiques of the Temple.