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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. [NRSV]

Let’s have a conversation

• Talk about bowl games
• Inaugurations
• Resolutions and getting in shape
• the weather
• Or about purpose, meaning and life.

LATIN ‘Fiat’:  So let it be

• Before “Let there be light” there was Word,
• God starts creation with conversation. 
• John’s gospel is about telling, explaining and persuasion to believe. 
• Before the bang of creation was the Word. 

There was the relationship of love without the expression of love. If these us only self to love, love is not possible. God formed the meaning of love in our creation and spoke us into being. 

A conversation of relationship rather than just order. 

• John does not say in the beginning there was 
• Physics, 
• Mathematics and 
• Gravity. 
• Rather in the beginning was the relationship, conversation and love. 

Antithesis 

A self absorbed creator would only need mechanics. God starts with conversation relation and meaning. That purpose is to love which requires relationship conversations as purposeful constructs. 

Long before galaxies were formed far, far away there was god who had all power purpose and possibly. The meaning at work is not only order but the why before the order. 

God so loved that creation was indivisible with Gods identity and purpose for creating. 

So what?

Speech assumes a conversation and conversation assumes a relationship and the desire to be in relationship is the core of love and thus God speeaks because God wants love, relationship and meaning 

Start a new year committed to preparing for God conversations. 

In a world that is so desperately seeking a world void of God, you and I have a mission to bridge the gap of chaos. 

Love gives the meaning to our lives else we are a purposesless existence 

People live that way every day

Examples: 

Is fairness a principle of gravity?

Is justice necessary in physics?

Is kindness or needed in science?

Does mathematics demand love?

What would we see things develop and evolve if it to find a more perfect interdependence and relationship?

Genesis. God speaks order because God desires to love more than to exist
That’s why God would die for us. It is what gives meaning to our existence and god’s identity of love. 

Because of sin, where we love ourselves more than loving god abs o e another god speaks the word of recreation in Christ to restore our relationship

2017 Resolution to 

• Talk with God
• Talk with family about God
• Prepare to open conversation to God beyond bf out family and friends 

Where there is fear and division open conversations rather than taking sides and dividing relationship

Explain why you believe what you trust

keep choosing chaos over love

Applying Titus 3

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone. 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 The saying is sure. I desire that you insist on these things, so that those who have come to believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are excellent and profitable to everyone. 9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.