The Word to the World (Pt 2)

What is the uniqueness of JOHN?

So far, there have been over one hundred "Jesus movies" made. Films about Jesus.

In my phone conversation with Bruce earlier today, I shared with him what I had been learning from a book called When I Don't Desire God by John Piper.

As Christians we all know how important the Bible is to our daily walk with Jesus. It is central. It is our final authority. Jesus is the very Word of God.

But, Piper expressed this very uniquely:

He pointed to 1 Samuel 3:21, "And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD," and expounded it like this: "As the Word was heard, the Lord was seen. In the hearing was the seeing. The spiritual hearing of God's Word becomes the spiritual seeing of God's glory" (Piper, 95).

And that's the goal of JOHN. By making a word-for-word, scripture-by-scripture film of the entire Gospel According to John in the New International Version (NIV) of the Holy Bible, we are presenting before a generation of people saturated by multi-media: the Word of God, so that in hearing it, they may "see" the heart of Jesus, by the Spirit of God.

That's why JOHN won't be "just another Jesus movie." It will be His Word, and the Spirit of God revealing Jesus through that Word.

So, Bruce prays about the scripting process. To weed out everything that is "of man," and seeks only the things of the Spirit - without losing sight of the fact that this is a film, and it must be done with creative/artistic excellence (and still be driven by the Spirit and dripping with His anointing).

"In the beginning was the Word..." (John 1:1).
Drumroll!
Fanfare!
The Glory of God!
Jesus Himself!