New Testament Forum

The gospel that I am picking to write about is the gospel of John. Most of my thought is influenced by the gospel of John itself, but I am helped along by commentaries and study bibles as well I only wish I could say my mind was brilliant enough to so completely digest the word of God without any help. Maybe the brilliance is in knowing my limitations. To me, I think in the gospel of John he is trying to show that Jesus is both savior but also personal. That to Jesus, we are more than just a task to complete for his Father. I do love the gospel of John because it is so relational between God the creator and us his creation. I don't think that this is more brought forward than John 17 in which Jesus prays for all believers. In that pray (v) 24 Jesus says something that astounds me, "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world". You know with modern technology we humans still can not see to the ends that God has created, and yet you see in the prayer from Jesus just how much he loves you and I, amazing the ones that caused a fractured world is worth his complete services to us. I don't think that I will ever understand completely this Jesus and how he loves us, but looking at the gospel of John one begins to understand more clearly. Jesus is for sure no ordinary man, for sure he is the God-Man the Word who became flesh (1:14). The gospel of John will also show that believers can have an abundant life within the circumstances of a fractured world (10:10). If we will only believe in him we can have a more complete and eternal existence with Jesus (20:31).

I live in Stevensville Montana, this is where I grew up. I am married to Tina my high school sweetheart and we have raised four girls, oh yes and they are wonderful. I am currently helping at the Victor Community Church as they go through an interim process as the previous pastor retired. I am a latecomer to Christ, and he so changed my life that to do anything less than serve Him is unfulfilling. .

My observations about the gospel of John the gospel to this particular gospel seems to indicate or portray Jesus as a prophet figure, even more so than Matthew Mark and Luke simply because as I read the gospel of John I noticed that it is shifting to the prophecy aspect numerous times. John 3:14 John 7:12 John 21:18 John 16:2 John 4:23 John 14:19 John 12:32 John 19:36 it also speaks of his deity numerous times as well. I believe that the gospel of John depicts Jesus Christ as the son of God in the ways that Matthew, Mark, and Luke do not. John 19:36 John 8:58 John 4:26 John 14:9 So as I said the gospel of john is very clear on who Jesus is it just throws it all out there were and the other gospels do touch on it however it is not as plain.