7 episodes
John's Gospel: LIFE, LIGHT AND THE GOSPEL Mark Meynell
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- Religion & Spirituality
These talks were first given at CORNERSTONE 2010 (The All Souls Church, Langham Place Week Away) held in Bath in August 2010.
These talks sought to give a sense of the whole of John's gospel by taking his Prologue (John 1:1-18) and his Gospel Summary Statement (John 20:30-31) as bookends - and then seeing how they get worked out in the course of the book's big themes.
1. The Beginning: THE WORD OF LIFE (John 1:1-18 - The Prologue)
2. The Revelation: SIGNS OF GOD (John 8:31-59 - Before Abraham... )
3. The Gospel: LOVE FOR THE UNLOVELY (John 3:1-21 - The Religious Teacher Learns A Lesson)
4. The Battle: LIGHT vs DARKNESS (John 9 - A Blind Man Sees Again)
5. The Family: LIFE ON THE VINE (John 13:1-17 - A Community of Love)
6. ALL-AGE TALK - The Privilege: BELIEVE & LIVE! (John 20:24-31 - The Doubter Confesses)
Seminar: CAN WE TRUST JOHN'S GOSPEL?
NB Sound quality is variable - especially on Talk 3 and the All-Age Talk (no 6) - otherwise all should be fine.
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1. The Beginning (The Word of Life) - John 1:1-18
The great symphony of John's Gospel begins here!
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2. The Revelation (SIGNS OF GOD) - John 8
John's gospel has been known as the Gospel of Signs. But the crucial issue is where these signs point? This will put all the pieces of the divine jigsaw puzzle together, to understand why John was so crucial for what would later become the doctrine of the Trinity.
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3. The Gospel: LOVE FOR THE UNLOVELY (John 3:1-21)
Jesus is approached by a senior religious figure and teacher - Nicodemus. But he discovers that the gospel of grace is more wonderfully scandalous than he could have imagined.
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4. The Battle: LIGHT vs DARKNESS (John 9)
Jesus knew from the beginning that he was being dropped into enemy-occupied territory. How does the battle with darkness play out in John's gospel (with a particular focus on his conflict with the Pharisees over the healing of the man born blind?
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5. LIFE ON THE VINE (John 13 etc)
What does it mean to be the church today? What does true gospel community shaped by love look like? Jesus in John gives a number of answers.
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6. TRUST & LIVE (All Age Talk - John 20:24-31)
Fun for all the family - learning how Thomas' amazing confession of Christ can teach us all.
NB - bad sound quality
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