Knowing God - Eastertide Sermon series

1 John is the Apostle’s first and longer letter, written to encourage Christian confidence and loving lives. His first recipients clearly had some interesting ‘new’ ideas, even special knowledge on spiritual matters. They seem to have been claiming that they were perfect already, and that Jesus was not a real man. These misunderstandings fall under the ‘gnostic heresies’ (gnostic is from the Greek ‘gnosis’ meaning knowledge).

John writes graciously and forcefully. His favourite phrase is ‘we know’: 17 times he says this, because he, and the ‘we’ is him speaking in his apostolic capacity, really does know: he had spent 3 years with the Lord Jesus Christ and then a lifetime of reflecting on Jesus’ teaching and ministry.

There is an old legend about John, from the 4th-century theologian Jerome: John was old and frail, unable to walk, so his disciples would carry him into the gathering of believers on the Lord’s Day. Every week these were his words to the congregation: “Little children, love one another.”

Jerome’s story’s is but a legend, but true or not, it sounds like the Apostle John we hear in the words of this his First letter of John: Love one another.

Sunday 7 April - Knowing God: Crucial evidence (1 John 1:-2:2)
Sunday 14 April - Knowing God: Distinctive evidence (1 John 3:1-7)
Sunday 21 April - Knowing God: Practical evidence (1 John 3:16-24)
Sunday 28 April - Knowing God: Embodied evidence (1 John 4:7-21)
Sunday 5 May - Knowing God: Obedient evidence (1 John 5:1-6)
Sunday 12 May - Knowing God: Divine evidence (1 John 5:9-13)

9.30am All Age Holy Communion

28/04/2024

James Sampson-Foster

1 John 4:7–21

Knowing God: Practical evidence

21/04/2024

Wilfrid Kendall

1 John 3:16–24

Knowing God: Distinctive evidence

14/04/2024

Revd Richard Hibbert

1 John 3:1–7

Knowing God: Crucial evidence

07/04/2024

Rob Harrison

1 John 1
1 John 2:1–2

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Though varying in style and types of worship, each helps us to explore and understand the love of God and what that means to our lives.

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