Day 209 of 365

John 3:16-17

How Did the Father Send the Son?

The essential question we must struggle with is, How did the Father send the Son?  How we answer this question determines whether we conclude that this statement is just another way of expressing the task we’ve been given in the other commissioning statements or whether this commissioning statement establishes the foundation for how we accomplish the mission of Jesus. The answer is in the portrait of Jesus that John paints for the reader. 

One of the central messages in John’s Gospel is that Jesus is the sent one of God.  Thirty-eight times John records that the Father sent Jesus.5  And John clearly tells us why Jesus was sent in John 3:17: “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” Paul affirms this in his first letter to Timothy: “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost” (1 Timothy 2:15).

https://radical.net/article/learning-from-the-sent-one/

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