Come and see Jesus?
Dear Saints: We continue our in-depth study of John 1. Today we meet Philip and Nathanael, two apostles of Christ. Jesus personally invited Philip to follow him unlike some of the other disciples. The point is that Jesus himself is personally calling us to himself. But it does not stop there. When we get called and meet Jesus, the next supernatural thing is to call our friends and family to come and meet Jesus. When they do come, they will never be the same. Philip goes and called Nathanael (Bartholomew same person). Jesus surprises Nathanael telling him his true self- a man of integrity. Before that, Nathanael’s bias would have robbed him the life-time joy of meeting God as he later confessed. Some of us are still being stopped by our biases and prejudices of people groups and nations. “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” We are still asking. Can anything good come out the worst ghettos of our cities or countries? We say things like, “those Whites, those Blacks, those...