[John Part 01] That You May Believe

One of the things that I do besides helping the church behind the scenes at Grace Point Northwest as the Deacon of Communications is that I am a slam poet. In fact, I was on the Battleborn Slam team for the Summer of 2018. And one of the things that I had to do to compete is to have my poetry picked apart so that I could get my pieces into performance shape. Not just by my coaches, but my peers on my team.

And the painful thing about editing poetry is that you get asked lots of questions that begin in “Why?” And as annoying as the process gets, you begin to shape what you intend to communicate. Into something that people can get right off the bat.

This Sunday, we are going to start our series entitled, That You May Believe. In this series, we are going to

John 20:30–31 ESV

30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

90% of what is in John is unique to his gospel account