Title: The Christ Who Demonstrates His Glory and Demands Your Trust: Reprise
Text: John 20.26–31
Structure: the gospel of John was written to elicit saving faith
1. Why saving faith is necessary
- your life depends on it (20.31)
- future life (11.25–26)
- present life (3.16)
2. What saving faith is
- not religion (2.6, et al.)
- not ecstatic experience (2.23–25)
- not a decision (3.16)
- a persistent, growing confidence in Christ that produces a persistent, growing likeness to Christ (3.16, 36; ch. 11)
3. Who the object of saving faith is
- the Creator (1.1)
- the Incarnate (1.14)
- the Crucified (chs. 19–20)
