So why does it bother us so much that Christianity claims it is the only way to heaven? You feel safer letting your kids play outside, knowing that someone isn’t speeding through your neighborhood as a shortcut. What’s the appeal of a gated community, or neighborhoods that have only one way in and one way out? Because there is security in knowing that people aren’t using your neighborhood like a shortcut on their way to somewhere else. Then there were some like Ryan Denham who said they didn’t want a community. There were some like Jeff Williams who said they didn’t want a gate. Lots of people’s comments on my facebook poll said they wouldn’t. The Holy Grail for a lot of people would be a gated community (although not everybody. And even within neighborhoods, the most desirable streets are cul de sacs. Now there are three ways in or out of our neighborhood, and there is about to be a fourth.īut it is true that people favor limited access neighborhoods. Now that has changed in the last nine years. Statistically, there is less crime in neighborhoods with one entrance and one exit. At that time, our neighborhood had one entrance and one exit. But we are going to skip the one in John 11-“I am the resurrection and the life” and circle back to it for next week’s Palm Sunday service. So today, we come to our fifth I Am statement, “I am the way the truth and the life.” If you are studying them in the order they appear in John, this one is actually the 6th of the seven I am statements. Jehovah, or Yahweh as it’s often translated. Week one we talked about how God revealed Himself to Moses at the Burning Bush as “I AM.” That’s God’s personal name. We are seven weeks into our series on Jesus’ I AM statements in the gospel of John. Good morning! Please open your Bibles to John 14.
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