JOHN – Chapter 19
What/who was important to Jesus?
Humanity
What needs did Jesus meet?
The world’s need for a savior
What did Jesus ask or require of his followers?
Indirectly to trust Him for salvation
What issues did Jesus address (relationships, work, money, character, religious practice, etc.)?
Justification and atonement
What is compelling to you about Jesus in this section?
A transliteration of Jesus’ Hebrew name, which means “Jesus the Messiah.”---also, spells the tetragrammaton out in initials, which is God’s revealed name.
Another note:
---- Hebrew written, above the Cross. Yahshua HaNazarei v Melech HaYehudim: or Yahshua the Nazarene and King of the Jews. (INRI is the Latin initials of the Latin translation of this sign found, on some Roman Catholic crucifixes, as well as Jesus’ Cross).
Also, the full sign on the Cross may have looked similar to this:---so God’s Revealed Name and Truth were written on the Cross: Grace, Unconditional Love, Mercy, Justice and Forgiveness
How do followers respond to Jesus?
Trust in Christ’s atonement and nothing else, in order to be justified and declared righteous before God (Although, this is a Pauline reinterpretation of the event of the Cross---it is still true)
What in this section challenges us to respond/ imitate/obey?
Trust in Christ’s atonement and nothing else, in order to be justified and declared righteous before God
How did Jesus change the world (for an individual or for a community)? Jesus atoned for the sins of the whole world and all people everywhere, in all times with an unlimited atonement (not a limited atonement as Calvinists claim), so that whoever trusts in Christ’s atonement and nothing else is justified and declared righteous before God
What vision of being missional do you glimpse for yourself? For the church?
The church must pursue reconciliation of the lost through it’s theology of the Cross as per Luther's Theology Of The Cross as an example as all Christian theology is contingent upon the Cross
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