Believing Is Seeing: A Guide for Responding to John's Gospel

What are you looking for? These are Jesuss first words in Johns Gospel and he asks us the same question when we decide to follow him. We read Johns Gospel because it helps us get closer to Jesus. Were like the first disciples who answer his question with their own Master where can we find you? Only near the end of Johns story do we learn the answer: Jesus lives in the hearts of all who love him. Believing is Seeing guides readers to believe more deeply in Jesus of Nazareth as the human face of God seen through the eyes of his beloved disciple. It beckons us to bring to his gospel our soul-searching questions. Do Jesuss words stake a claim on my life? Does Johns gospel test me intellectually spiritually or morally? Does Johns portrait of Jesus make me see him a new way pray differently even live differently? Believing in Jesus the Son of God shapes how we perceive our own identity the world around us the nature of truth and our relationship with God. To believe is to see with loves eyes. Bruce McNab has given us a quite wonderful journey into a marvelous gospel. Bruce has taken some of the best scholarship on the Fourth Gospel and assimilated reframed and delivered it as only an experienced master preacher can. He has taken his love of Johns gospel and in this rich and rewarding book helps us to fall in love to believe in order that we might receive a fresh vision of the Word made flesh and in seeing respond. --Will Willimon United Methodist Bishop retired and Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry Duke Divinity School; Author of How Odd of God: Chosen for the Curious Vocation of Preaching In Believing Is Seeing Bruce brings out the compelling beauty and power of the Gospel of John with grounded scholarship felicitous insights and the kind of writing that actually kindles a deeper desire to know and love Christ. Its both a fruitful read and a moving one whether youre the new believer (what delights ahead!) or you think youve mastered Johns Gospel (you havent!). --Kathleen Mulhern Executive Editor of Patheos.com; Adjunct Professor of Christian Formation and Soul Care Denver Seminary Bruce McNab is an Episcopal priest. Before retiring from parish ministry in 2011 he served as rector of five parishes in the US and overseas. He holds degrees from Austin College Princeton University and the General Theological Seminary. Author of Let Your Light Shine and Finding the Way Bruce McNab lives with his wife Joan at the foot of the Bridger Mountains in Bozeman Montana.