Follow Me - Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John (Session 1 - Introduction and Prologue (1:1-18))

Join with your friends and neighbors at Sligo Presbyterian Church to meet Jesus in the Gospel of John. During the study, we’ll follow the outline below:

• Session 1 - Introduction and Prologue (1:1-18)
• Session 2 - Let the Witnessing Begin (1:19-51)
• Session 3 - Transforming the Old (2:1-25)
• Session 4 - In a Nutshell (3:1-35)
• Session 5 - A Woman at a Well (4:1-54)
• Session 6 - Jesus as Testimony (5:1-47)
• Session 7 - Jesus as Bread (6:1-71)
• Session 8 - Who Is Jesus (7:1-52)
• Session 9 - Who Is Jesus [Part 2] (8:-59)
• Session 10 - The Blind See and the Sighted Become Blind (9:1-41)
• Session 12 - Lazarus (11:1-57)
• Session 13 - Jerusalem for the Last Time (12:1-50)
• Session 14 - The Last Supper (13:1-38)
• Session 15 - Someone Else Is Coming (14:1-31)
• Session 16 - Since We Abide in the Vine (15:1-26)
• Session 17 - To Our Advantage (16:1-33)
• Session 18 - Last Prayer (17:1-26)
• Session 19 - Jesus Is Still in Control (18:1-40)
• Session 20 - Lifted Up (19:1-42)
• Session 21 - Raised (20:1-31)
• Session 22 - Love vs. Like (21:1-25

In our first study, we'll looked at the prologue in John 1:1-18. The passage and a recording of the lesson is below:

John 1:1-18

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

(John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’”) From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.