Our attitude
We Encounter Face to Face to Jesus who demands Choices
COME AND SEE
COME AND SEE - GO AND TELL
...John speaks to us through his Gospel as Jesus does to the people in the Gospel. "Greater works than these," Jesus says. John's Gospel is surely one of those greater works, done in the name of Jesus and hence bearing the power and authority that Jesus has as a Son of the Father.
This notion has, of course, profound ramifications for our reading of John's gospel. It is not just historical document, but the meeting ground between us and the Risen Lord. It is, through the Spirit of God, the very works and Word of God to us, that which bears witness of Jesus' authority to the Father. As people respond to Jesus in the Gospel of John, so we respond to the text of the Gospel of John. For some, that means embracing it and being fashioned and changed by it. For others, that means rejecting it.
by Matthew Lee Anderson