We are all searching for satisfaction and we try to find it in hundreds of ways. Jesus offers all of us, who are weary from the sins we commit and the shame we carry, true and lasting satisfaction. He offers us Himself and if we have Him, then we have Life, that is full and eternal.

Our attitude toward the truth determines the outcome of our lives. If we don’t love the truth, if we resist it, we resist salvation. But if we do love the truth then we embrace salvation and we receive the reward: the crown of life.

So much of our anger, sadness, coldness, critical-spirit, and refusal to forgive arises because we’ve forgotten who we are and we’re expecting the world to treat us like we’re the groom, but it’s not our party, it’s not our story! JESUS is the groom! Jesus is the Hero! And John knew this and that’s the secret! John is content in life and full of joy because he’s accepted the reality that it’s not about JOHN – It’s ALL about Jesus and for Jesus! and this is the secret to his contentment and peace!

John 3:16 gives us the good news of what we can saved for but John 3:17-21 invites us to consider what we can be saved from. In this, the gospel doesn't just give us hope for eternal life-the gospel also gives us God's promise of salvation from the punishment and power of our sin!

John 3:16 is spoken by Jesus himself and is part of a “night-time” conversation that Jesus is having with a religious leader named Nicodemus. In an authentic dialogue with Jesus, Nicodemus (the main religious teacher in all of Israel during the time of Jesus) is having his whole perception of God and having relationship with Him flipped on its head. In short, Nicodemus is learning that salvation has been and will continue to be based upon God’s grace, his work and the work of man is to believe!

If the Gospel of John was written that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Then it is very important that we understand WHAT believe means, HOW belief happens and WHO belief is given to. Jesus addresses these things in this passage and shows us that WE ARE BORN AGAIN and brought to BELIEF by grace and grace alone.

Jesus does not deal kindly with extra biblical requirements or religious obstacles to enjoying the relational realities of the New Covenant with God made possible through His life, death and resurrection.

Jesus delivers to us a NEW COVENANT by his perfect life lived, substitutionary life died, and bodily resurrection from the dead – all of this is a gift of grace, to be received by faith, that when received makes sinners supernaturally children of God.

Biblical Soul Care is the process of entering into a loving relationship with another person to help them understand their sin and suffering biblically and apply the good news of Jesus Christ to their lives by faith. We all need this type of care and every believer is called to extend this care one another. Join us as we learn what this looks like, why it matters, and what it means to be a church equipped to care for one another’s souls with the good news of Jesus!

The suffering of Jesus our Savior didn’t begin on the cross, it began at his birth and continued to all the way to his death, and it was all for our redemption and salvation.