GOSPEL OF JOHN AND THE MISSION“Christianity begins with the surprising affirmation that the center of human reality is love” the central question here is what love is, How does the Gospel of John lead to Johnnie's Community? And how we understand the Word “Love” and its reality. Obviously John describes love as synonymous with Jesus, the Son of God. Before we make some discussions about the gospel we believed was written by the disciple who loved Jesus (John 13:23, 19:26, 20:2, 21:7) It's nice to see the purpose of this gospel. The purpose of John's gospel seems summarized in two verses: «Jesus performed many other signs before his disciples, which are not remembered in this book. But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." (John 20:30-31, NIV). The Gospel of John is unspeakably mission-oriented. John the Baptist goes out and goes into the community and explains to them what it means to free oneself from one's sin, enjoy freedom and be justified. John the Baptist did not present the one who will come (the Son) as a humble and ordinary human being, but presents him as mighty, mighty (John 1:27). But later in John chapter 13 we see a humble, foot-washing Son of God. Jesus came as a powerful and mighty being that a human is unworthy to even untie the laces of His sandals (John 1:27 NIV) or lowly foot washer and fish cooker (John 13 and 21:7), He came to create a relationship amazing with humanity? As we see both John the Baptist and the mission of Jesus in the community, how humanity (which becomes flesh) favors reciprocity between the messiah and the human being. There is no moment when Jesus' divinity overshadows his humanity. Our justification is based on… middle of the paper… Today, as followers of Christ, we will never be satisfied if our lives do not bear lasting fruit because we are not fulfilling the purpose for which we were “grafted” into the Vine. Let us examine the “fruit” of our life. Is it the kind of fruit that reveals the character of Christ? Let us not settle for an unsuccessful Christianity. God will do the work to make us fruitful—we need only endure, surrendering our lives to His mission to make disciples of all nations through us. The whole notion of mission is to tend to carry out the work of evangelization not through hierarchy, sovereignty, but rather through humility, hospitality, affection, love for others. Thus Jesus, who in the first chapter of John describes as the one whose sandal laces we do not deserve to be untied, who then became a footwasher, an intimate of humanity leaving his equality with God.
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