“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” – -AW Tozer
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete.
1 John 1: 1-4 New International Version (NIV)
“This is how we know…”
“God is Love”
Gnosticism denied the inherent goodness of God’s physical creation, promoting the idea that through special “knowledge” (the Greek word is Gnosis) the human spirit could be liberated from the body.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
1 JOHN 1: 1-4 (NIV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
John 1:1-4 (NIV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
John 1:1-4 (NIV)
Jesus is fully God and fully human
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
John 1:3 (NIV)
The infinite Life of God himself took shape before us. We saw it, we heard it, and now we’re telling you so you can experience it along with us, this experience of communion with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. Our motive for writing is simply this: We want you to enjoy this, too.
John 1:3 (The Message)
Koinonia – Fellowship… to participate in, to commune with
Through Christ, we are united with each other and with God—we get to participate in, have communion with the relationship that is at the heart of the whole Universe: the eternal life of God, the eternal loving relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17:20-23 (NIV)
We write this to make our joy complete.
1 John 1:4 (NIV)
John Bowlby pioneered one of the most influential models in understanding human psychology and relationships, known as attachment theory.
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – -C.S. Lewis