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The Other Jesus, Week 1, Day 4

by David Joynt on June 06, 2018

The Other Jesus, Week 1, Day 4

JOHN 6:40-42

This connection between claim and identity is immediately visible to those who first heard Jesus teach.  How can Jesus be divine bread which came down from heaven if he has human parents named Joe and Mary and a Nazareth address?  The person who wants to treat Jesus as simply a great teacher soon runs into this same dilemma!  Great teachers do not ordinarily claim to be divine and in charge of the final judgement.

 Read and meditate on the “I am” sayings from the Gospel of John:

I am… the Bread of Life 6:35
I am… the Light of the Cosmos 8:12
I am… the Gate for the Sheep 10:7,9
I am… the Good Shepherd 10:11,14
I am… the Resurrection and the Life 11:25
I am… the Way, the Truth, and the Life 14:6
I am… the True Vine 15:1,5

FAMILY TIME

Pick an “I am” saying and discuss its meaning.

 

Tags: the life, the truth, the way

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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