John: Decisions that Define Us

Recordings, notes and application questions

Oasis Church Birmingham
Nov 5 · 3 min read

Each week, we produce notes, discussion points and application questions for the Sunday talks — helping you go deeper into everything we’re looking at together and resourcing our Small Groups during the week. Use the embedded player to listen to the talk, or click here to visit Soundcloud and download it on a PC. You can also subscribe to Oasis podcasts on Spotify, iTunes or Podbean for listening on the go, and you can find the accompanying Powerpoint presentation for this week’s talk here.

Key Passages

  • John 1:35–51

Notes

Jesus calls each of us to ‘follow.’ To live life with Him at the centre and have our identity defined in Him. He is the one who calls. But the specific experience of that may be different from one person to the next. In this passage, Jesus calls his first disciples to himself.

Andrew (what do you want?)

  • Everyone is looking for something (often a thing or an experience).

Peter (known by Jesus)

  • Jesus shows Peter that He is known and gives Him a name as an identity to live in.

Philip (follow me)

  • Jesus went to find Philip, not the other way round. How good to discover that God is seeking you out.

Nathaniel (come and see)

  • Once again, Nathaniel finds that he is known and welcomed. His trust is in response to Jesus’s word given to Nathaniel.

Application Questions

  1. What speaks to you through this passage / Sunday’s sermon?

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We’re about two things: Loving God, and Loving People

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