First Greek Devotion

John 1:1 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. 2  οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. 3  πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν 4  ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· 5  καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν. (Joh 1:1-5 BGT)

We are now through nouns and well into verbs in Greek class.  We now know 72% of the words in the New Testament.  Yet, somehow it seems that every time Jeff puts a word on the board in systematic theology we have not had the word yet!  I am starting to wonder if I really know 72% or how many times "the" "and" and "if" appear in the text.


 To help with my Greek I started today with trying to do at least part of my devotions in Greek.  I am starting with the Gospel of John as it is one of the easier books to read in Greek.


The major benefit I found today is it causes you to slow down and really think about and meditate on especially familiar texts.  It also gives motivation for studying Greek!

Greatest Sentence Ever Penned?

 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. (Joh 1:1 BGT)

One of the top 3!  

• The word order tells us that Jesus has all the divine attributes of  the Father, the lack of the article tells us that Jesus is not the Father.
• What God was, the Word was
• The person of the Word (Jesus) is not the same as the person of the Father
• Jesus Christ is God and has all the attributes the Father does, but He is not the Father.
• Luther "The lack of the article is against Sebelliansim, the word order is against Arianism."
• All that in the last 5 words of John 1:1

Quote: Jeff Purswell

My goal as a pastor is not to direct people to certainty, rather to direct them to the feet of God.  The God of all mercy and comfort who has provided a Savior.

Rom 5:12-21

Jeff just rocked Romans 5:12-21. 


If we have no relationship to Adam and his original sin then there is no relationship between us and Christ--we cannot be seen righteous in Christ if we are not seen as sinful in Adam.


Amen!