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We are continuing our miniseries “The Divine Story of Jesus and You.” Last week, Dr. Stan Long started this series by exploring essential elements of God’s story including the opportunity to interview God through God’s self-revelation in scripture. Jesus asked the Disciples two key questions: (1) what do the people of the world say about Jesus, with a multitude of answers. (2) Then in each of the gospels Jesus asked the disciples who do you say that Jesus is? The disciple Peter responded that Jesus is the Christ of God (See Matthew 16:16, Mark 8:29, Luke 9:20, and John 6:69). This series explores these two key questions: Who is Jesus? In what ways does Jesus affect our world and us today? In this series, we are utilizing a booklet covering the life and teachings of Jesus based on scripture, spanning from the birth and childhood of Jesus to His last 40 days. This booklet is available for free at www.plusnothing.com.

Jesus is an unavoidable figure in history. To do justice to any evaluation of Jesus, one must listen to those who walked with Jesus and knew Jesus personally. This booklet gives us the primary documents to understand who Jesus is. Through this series, we will discover afresh who Jesus is and examine how Jesus intersects with our story both personally and for society as a whole.

The scripture text for today from John 1:1-18 is a prologue that introduces the main themes and foreshadows events that are to follow. It is vital to grasp the life and teachings of Jesus. The central figure, Jesus, is the WORD. The WORD is the crucial figure to understand the world, God, truth, grace, darkness, light, and becoming a child of God in reconciliation and right relationship with God and neighbors. The WORD is the key to our life journey.