Trusting Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God
“John has provided us with the best evidence he can muster to persuade us that belief is not only a reasonable choice, but a necessary decision if we are going to follow Jesus. Jesus is not an idea whose ongoing validity finds a home in our ideas or our ethics. Jesus is a person—he is God incarnate in human history—and in coming into history, he has left marks that we can see and measure and trust. The resurrection is the capstone event in Jesus’ career, which demonstrates the reality of what has happened since the moment of his incarnation” and demands our belief in him.
— Gary Burge