We live in a label obsessed culture. There are useful labels that inform us on what is in our food and there are unfair and misleading labels that we tend to give ourselves or others. We exist in an environment that wants to know “how we identify” or what is our preferred pronoun. Our challenge as people created in God’s image is to somehow let His character mark us to the extent that He identifies himself in us. We’ll find out how to do that this Sunday.

Some have the perspective that the most important thing in the Christian life is duty–where life in Jesus is all about obeying him out of duty. But the Bible provides the perspective that the most important thing in the Christian life isn’t actually duty, but love. And love for Jesus will actually lead disciples to obey Jesus. Join our study in John 21:15-17, to learn how Jesus reorients a disciple’s heart toward love for him and care for others. It can help reorient our hearts that way, too.

Some people have the experience of being bored in church, thinking that Christianity is primarily about people getting saved, and once they’re saved, there’s nothing else for them. But Christianity is primarily about God being glorified by saving sinners and shaping those he saves to have the character of his Son, where they love God more than anything else. That’s Jesus’ work of sanctifying believers through discipleship. We find through John 21:1-14 that since Jesus is risen, he provides ongoing discipleship for his disciples. His ministry to his disciples never ends.

We live in a world where we say, “I’ll believe it, when I see it.” That’s because we’ve learned that people often say things or make promises that they don’t keep. That’s the world Jesus’ original disciples lived in. When they heard that Jesus had risen from the dead they were skeptical that it was true. But fortunately, Jesus is risen from the dead, and he proves that he’s the risen Savior to them. Join our study in John 20:24-31 to learn lessons about Jesus proving that he’s the risen Savior.

When we hear that Jesus was resurrected because his work of redemption was finished, it may lead some to think that he simply retired and went off to heaven and is just taking it easy. The truth is that Jesus is continuing to do his ministry, the things he did before, in new ways. Join our study in John 20:18-23 to find out what he’s doing as we learn about Jesus’ ministry after his resurrection.