+Faith 01 - Introduction

I know you all din take down notes, so I think it's a good idea the post some of the things which we went through very quickly yesterday hehe

THE SEVENS!

7 miracles:

1. Turning water into wine (John 2)
2. Healing of nobleman's son (John 4)
3. Healing of the crippled man at Bethesda (John 5)
4. Feeding of the 5000 (John 6)
5. Jesus walking on the water (John 6)
6. Jesus opening the eyes of the blind man (John 9)
7. Raising of Lazarus (John 11)

7 witnesses:

1. John the Baptist (John 1:34)
2. Nathanael (John 1:49)
3. Peter (John 6:69)
4. Jesus himself (John 11:4)
5. Martha (John 11:27)
6. Thomas (John 20:28)
7. John (John 20:31)

7 claims:

1. I AM the Bread of Life (John 6:35)
2. I AM the Light of the World (John 8:12)
3. I AM the door (John 10:27)
4. I AM the good Shepherd (John 10:11)
5. I AM the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25)
6. I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6)
7. I AM the True Vine (John 15:1-5)

Key Question: SO WHAT?

And the passage taken from C.S Lewis's Mere Christian:

"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 one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing 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."

The challenge, as we begin our studies on who Jesus Christ (of Nazareth) is, is that we are ‘forced’ to eventually come to a decision. Either he is God, or he is not. If He is, then we are to accept Him as Lord and Master as well. All our knowledge of Him must be known with the mind, accepted with the heart and acted out in life.

That's about it, see you all next week!