"What are you taking a look for?" those are Jesus's first phrases in John's Gospel, and he asks us a similar query once we choose to stick to him. We learn John's Gospel since it is helping us catch up with to Jesus. we are just like the first disciples, who resolution his query with their very own, "Master, the place do we locate you?" in simple terms close to the tip of John's tale will we examine the reply: Jesus lives within the hearts of all who love him.
Believing is Seeing courses readers to think extra deeply in Jesus of Nazareth because the human face of God, noticeable in the course of the eyes of his liked disciple. It beckons us to deliver to his gospel our soul-searching questions. Do Jesus's phrases stake a declare on my existence? Does John's gospel try me intellectually, spiritually, or morally? Does John's portrait of Jesus make me see him a brand new manner, pray otherwise, even stay another way? Believing in Jesus, the Son of God, shapes how we understand our personal id, the area round us, the character of fact, and our courting with God. To think is to determine with love's eyes.

"Bruce McNab has given us a fairly significant trip right into a extraordinary gospel. Bruce has taken the superior scholarship at the Fourth Gospel and assimilated, reframed, and brought it as merely an skilled, grasp preacher can. He has taken his love of John's gospel and, during this wealthy and profitable e-book, is helping us to fall in love, to think so that we would obtain a clean imaginative and prescient of the be aware made flesh and, in seeing, respond."
--Will Willimon, United Methodist Bishop, retired, and Professor of the perform of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity institution; writer of How bizarre of God: selected for the Curious Vocation of Preaching

"In Believing Is Seeing, Bruce brings out the compelling good looks and tool of the Gospel of John with grounded scholarship, felicitous insights, and the type of writing that really kindles a deeper wish to understand and love Christ. it really is either a fruitful learn and a relocating one, even if you are the new believer (what delights ahead!) otherwise you imagine you've gotten mastered John's Gospel (you haven't!)."  
--Kathleen Mulhern, govt Editor of Patheos.com; Adjunct Professor of Christian Formation and Soul Care, Denver Seminary

Bruce McNab is an Episcopal priest. ahead of retiring from parish ministry in 2011, he served as rector of 5 parishes within the US and abroad. He holds levels from Austin collage, Princeton college, and the final Theological Seminary. writer of Let Your gentle Shine and Finding the Way, Bruce McNab lives along with his spouse Joan on the foot of the Bridger Mountains in Bozeman, Montana.