Knowing and Being Known
When you consider Jesus’ time on earth, do you think of him having close, personal friends? Do you picture him navigating the beautiful mess of community? Awkard conversations? The deep joy of friendship? Probably not. We tend to see Jesus as an impersonal force to be dealt with instead of a real person to know. The incarnation and the recorded events of Jesus’ life in the New Testament make our assumptions profoundly untrue. This is an important fact to remember as we pursue a relationship with Jesus. Jesus is knowable. Jesus became human and will be a human for eternity precisely for this reason: That we may know him.
This Sunday we will look at Jesus within his community of good friends (John 11) and see how God reveals himself to his people so that we may walk with him in a real, intimate, and personal way.