Monday, October 6, 2008

Intensive Gospel Study: John 18

Reading Sheet
JOHN – Chapter 18

What/who was important to Jesus?

Truth

What needs did Jesus meet?

Jesus willingly allows Himself to be arrested so that God’s Will could be fulfilled

What did Jesus ask or require of his followers?

To bear witness to Jesus, who is the Truth and to listen for His voice

What issues did Jesus address (relationships, work, money, character, religious practice, etc.)?
What/who the Truth is

What is compelling to you about Jesus in this section?

That He is the Truth and “Jesus answered, ‘My kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world.’"---John 18:36 (RSV)

How do followers respond to Jesus?
By bearing witness to Jesus, who is the Truth and listening out for His voice in all things

What in this section challenges us to respond/ imitate/obey?

We are to bear witness to Jesus, who is the Truth and to listen for His voice in all things

How did Jesus change the world (for an individual or for a community)? He bears witness to God’s self-disclosure of the Truth in Himself


What vision of being missional do you glimpse for yourself? For the church? The church must bear witness to Jesus, in all things and to discern His voice in all things

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