As providence would have it, we find ourselves as a church in a very interesting passage of Scripture on Easter morning as we inch our way through the Gospel of John. It is a single verse that Martin Luther called the Bible in miniature because it sums up, in condensed form the essential truths of the entire story of redemption in 24 words. Namely, that God loves bad people and that he was willing to give his life, to give his Son over to death so that sinners might live.