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Encounters with Jesus John 1:35-51 Start of many personal stories in John’s Gospel

Encounters with Jesus John 1:35-51 Start of many personal stories in John’s Gospel Which ones speak to you? Here are some of the first disciples. John Not mentioned? Surely the other disciple with Andrew? Reflective person (see his Gospel) Wants to know about Jesus (‘Where do you live?’)

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Encounters with Jesus John 1:35-51 Start of many personal stories in John’s Gospel

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  1. Encounters with Jesus John 1:35-51 Start of many personal stories in John’s Gospel Which ones speak to you? Here are some of the first disciples...

  2. John • Not mentioned? • Surely the other disciple with Andrew? • Reflective person (see his Gospel) • Wants to know about Jesus (‘Where do you live?’) • Come and see / come with me – vital for most people today • Go away, reflect on hospitality, friendliness, openness, and come back for more...

  3. Andrew • Fulfilment of a hope • Tell brother (‘We’ve found the Messiah!’) • Needs someone to make sense of life, history, hopes and fears, joys and disappointments • Meaning in the big questions?

  4. Peter • The one thing John records? • Jesus gives him a nick-name! • Needing valuing? Significance? • Needs a changer of lives • ‘Your life will be different! Follow!’ • You can be someone more than you are • Healed • Set free • Given a new identity

  5. Philip • Just two words • Simple command – ‘Follow me’ • Shy, hesitant maybe? • Perhaps none too bright? • Pointed out the obvious at the feeding of the 5000 – not enough for everyone... • After 3 years of hearing Jesus talk about God, ‘Show us the Father’ • Some people need to opt in to a simple ‘package deal’ from a trusted source • Just trust and follow, that’s absolutely fine

  6. Nathanael • Probably the same as BarTolemaus (Bartholemew) • We know nothing more about him • Just under the fig tree • Classic place for a thinker or dreamer to be • One of the ordinary silent disciples • Yet promised all the glories of heaven and seeing Jesus as the ladder

  7. Cornelius (and his household) Acts 10:35-45 • Foreigner, outsider • Believed in God and wants to know more • Hears God speak and acts on that • Through his bravery inviting Peter, changing the course of human history (glimpsed in the coming of the Magi)

  8. What about you? • Want to come and see and find out more? Like John...? • Want to try to make sense of life? Like Andrew...? • Want to have life changed? Find a new ‘you’? Like Peter...? • Would just like something definite? Not too much to get your head round? Like Philip...? • Just an ordinary person, sometimes you sit and think, sometimes you just sit? Like Nathanael...? • Got a family you are concerned for, and want to find the truth for them? Like Cornelius...?

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