“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Be prepared for a journey as we read through the Gospel of John written by a man that walked side by side with Jesus, the most controversial man that has ever lived. The apostle John writes about what Jesus did, what Jesus said, and the people’s response to Jesus.
In John 1:1 the “Word” is actually referring to Jesus, which is later revealed in verse 14. Jesus was with God from the very beginning of creation and Jesus is the Character that we will focus on as we study John in the months to come.
As we begin to study the life of Christ, I encourage you to wrestle with the following passage given by C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity. No matter what facts or lessons we learn together as we read the gospel of John, the most important question that we must ask ourselves is who do we really believe Jesus is?
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
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