Preaching helps.(Ash Wednesday - Good Friday, Gospel of John)

From: Currents in Theology and Mission | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Ash Wednesday--Good Friday, Series B

Four Gospels, Three Years

I don't know whether John is complaining. His fellow evangelists get to have whole years named after them, but we use John as supplementary material, inserting it here and there, especially in Lent and Easter. Of course, chopping up John the way we do, it is not easy to get a sense of the Fourth Gospel as a whole.

It's difficult even when we step back and scan the Gospel in its entirety, asking, "What is the story in John's Gospel?" Here are two attempts to summarize the plot of the Gospel of John in a ...

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