Well, welcome, everyone to the Spoken Gospel Podcast.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We are continuing our walk through the book of John, the gospel of John.

We did a introduction episode last time where we kind of floated very high above looking

at the who and the how and the why and the what, I think, of John's

gospel. But today we get to do more maybe what we really enjoy doing and settle down in a few

verses and walk through them, show how the whole story of the Bible is coming together in the

person and work of Jesus. And we're doing that in

John 1, one of the most famous passages in the Bible, in the beginning was the word and the word was with

God and the word was God. Here we go, Christine. Are you ready? Yes. Yes. As ready as I'll ever be.

Well, as we step into this, we set up a lot of categories about how to think about John as a person, as a follower of Jesus, as an author, as a thinker.

We talked about him as the same guy who wrote Revelation, the same one who is steeped in Old Testament imagery and loves patterns and motifs and loves to stack them all on top of each other so that he can say something really simply.

But then it connects to everything and it's unplumable at that point.

And it just becomes absolutely beautiful.

And so as we look at the opening of John,

I think when we look at Matthew and Luke and how they open their gospels, we get genealogies,

we get birth narratives. Mark starts his, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, son of God, and he's often running with John the Baptist.

John takes a different approach.

What is that approach and why do you think he takes it to throw you a hard question right out of the gate?

The right answer to that is I don't know.

I really don't know.

I seek connections between how John begins his gospel with the other two that you mentioned with genealogies, because John also begins at the beginning.

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