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The Gospel of John
Wednesday Night Bible Series

From the Pastor

Thank you for teaching through the Gospel of John on Wednesday nights with me. We are hoping to spend approximately 30 minutes on each lesson walking our church through this Gospel. Please remember that many adults are tired after a long day so try not to weary them excessively with your teaching.

John is one of my favorite books in the Bible. It is not considered a synoptic Gospel like Matthew, Mark, & Luke because the stories presented are thought to be significantly different. You will note, however, that John presents Jesus' deity like no other gospel. This youngest disciple, the "one that Jesus loved," has much to tell us about the majesty of the Messiah.

I hope you'll look over the resources I list below. They will help you in your study. We want to teach the text, not just an application of the text. I've tried to carve out logical sections from the book to make your lesson coherent. Try to find the big idea, the main purpose, of the text assigned to you. Write it in a past tense single sentence. (i.e. John wanted his readers to know that Jesus was God.) Then, make the sentence contemporary by changing the tense to present. (i.e. God wants us to know that Jesus is God.) You might also consider finding the Fallen Condition Focus (FCF) of the text, the brokenness that we share with the biblical audience that would make the Holy Spirit record and preserve this passage. (i.e. We would miss God among us if the Father had not revealed that Jesus was God in the flesh having come for us.)

Once you've identified the Big Idea and the FCF, make sure everything you're sharing in the text points back to that main idea. Those are what we call supporting elements. You don't have to be exhaustive by covering the deep meaning behind every verse. Exposition draws out of the text its intended purpose. Then, along the way, you're making application of those supporting elements and illustrating them by using other Bible stories or events in the world around us. But it's the text we want to shine into the hearts of those we teach. I'm confident you'll do great toward that end.

Below are resources that will help you in your study and presentation. I'm looking forward to co-teaching this powerful Gospel with you and seeing how God uses our various personalities to encourage and edify our church.

Because of Him,
Shawn

Our Zoom Kickoff Meeting

We met together via zoom to talk about strategy, tools, and schedule. Watch the video below for a refresher or if you missed the meeting. Click on the video below to watch.

Studying the Text/Chapter

1. Work through your assigned passage.
Bible Study Worksheet (Beginner)
I'm often asked how someone should go about studying the Bible with the goal of teaching. The following Bible Study Exercise was developed using principles from Bryan Chapell's Christ-Centered Preaching. The book is helpful but not necessary in following the process.
Bible Study Exercise Worksheet
12 Step Exegetical Guide (Advanced)
David Allen shares a 12-step approach to text-driven teaching/preaching. Allen is an extraordinary theologian and preacher and moves through the original Greek and Hebrew with ease. You can find his steps published in Text-Driven Preaching.
  1. Begin at the paragraph level, and then move to the sentence, clause, phrase, and word level.
  2. Analyze the sentences and clauses within the paragraph.
  3. Analyze the key phrases in the paragraph.
  4. Do word studies of significant words in the text. Note things like lexical repetition and words in the same semantic domain.
  5. Do comparative translation work. Look at several translations to see how they handle the text.
  6. Consult commentaries.
  7. diagram the paragraph.
  8. Develop an exegetical outline from the previous data.
  9. Develop the sermon (lesson) outline from the exegetical outline.
  10. Write the [lesson] body with a focus on exposition, illustration, and application.
  11. Write the introduction and conclusion.
  12. Think through delivery issues: how will you say it so that it reflects the spirit of the text?
2a. Consult Free Online Commentaries
What others have written about the text (1) validates that your personal study is on the right track, and (2) provides insight that you have missed in your analysis. Below are some commentary resources that are free and online.
Bible Gateway - Best online tool for online commentaries.
For the Gospel of John, look particularly at:
Asbury
   A Wesleyan one-volume relatively simplistic and brief. It has a good introduction to the book.
Matthew Henry's Commentary
   This is abridged, but a short explanation of passages.
IVP New Testament Commentary Series
   This is an absolute treasure for free online and is a great exegetical resource to dig deeper into the text.
Blue Letter Bible - Best online tool for exploring the text.
Go to a passage of Scripture and click the "Tools" button to the left of the Bible text. Click the Commentaries tab at the top of the open window. Don't forget to peck around at the Interlinear and the Cross-Ref tabs for some fun exploration in the text. Look particularly at:
Harmony of the Gospels
   This will demonstrate other parallel stories from other gospel accounts.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
   This is a solid but basic commentary.

NetBible.org - I don't have a lot of experience with this site but it's beautifully designed and has some helpful links.
2b. Consult Commentaries you can Purchase
These can be purchased from Amazon or electronically in a Bible study software tool like Logos.
The list of recommended commentaries below is an excerpt from David Allen's "Preaching Tools."
  • Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John. 2 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003.
  • Kostenberger, Andreas J. John. BECNT. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.
  • Borchert, Gerald L. John 1-11 and John 12-21. 2 volumes in NAC. Nashville: Boradman & Holman, 1996 & 2002 respectively.
  • Carson, D.A. The Gospel According to John. PNTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
2b. Consult On-Campus Resources
Our library doesn't have a lot of rich Bible study resources but my personal library is packed with stuff worth reading. You're welcome to anything I have in my personal library. Feel free to come in my office and borrow. Please do not remove the resource from campus.

Teachers in the Rotation

If you have a schedule conflict, feel free to reach out to one of our other teachers below to substitute. Please notify me once a substitution has been agreed to so I can update the master schedule below.

Teachers: Adam Carbajal, David French, Ryan Folsom, Mel Kenrick, Jason McFarland, Tyler Moore, Shawn Nichols, Trey Wright

Teaching Schedule

Text
Subject
Speaker
Date
John 1:1-18
The Prologue
Shawn Nichols
April 13, 2022
John 1:19-51
The Witness of John & Disciples
Adam Carbajal
April 20, 2022
John 2:1-11
Water into Wine
David French
April 27, 2022
John 2:12-22
The Cleansing of the Temple
Ryan Folsom
May 11, 2022
John 2:23-3:21
Nicodemus
Trey Wright
May 18, 2022
John 3:22-36
John's Last Testimony
Mel Kenrick
May 25, 2022
John 4:1-42
The Woman of Samaria
Jason McFarland
June 1, 2022
John 4:43-54
Healing the Nobleman's Son (Children's Camp Wk)
Shawn Nichols
June 8, 2022
John 5:1-17
Healing at Bethesda
Tyler Moore
June 15, 2022
John 5:18-32
Jesus' Deity (Youth Falls Creek Week)
Adam Carbajal
June 22, 2022
John 5:33-47
Witness of John, Works, the Father, & Scripture
David French
July 6, 2022
John 6:1-15
Feeding of 5,000
Ryan Folsom
July 13, 2022
John 6:16-71
Words to People, Jews, & Disciples
Mel Kenrick
July 20, 2022
John 7:1-53
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
Value
Value
John 8:1-11
Woman Caught in Adultery
John 8:12-30
The Light of the World
John 8:31-47
Truth Will Make You Free
John 8:48-59
Response to Unbelievers
John 9:1-41
Jesus Heals the Blind
John 10:1-21
Parable of the Good Shepherd
John 10:22-42
Jesus and His Deity
John 11:1-46
Lazarus
John 11:47-57
What will we do with Jesus?
John 12:1-26
Jesus anointed, enters Jerusalem
John 12:27-50
Foretells of Death; Speaks to Greeks
John 13:1-35
Passover
Value
John 13:36-14:15
Questions of Peter, Thomas & Philip
John 14:16-31
The Role of the Spirit
John 15:1-27
Discourse on Relations
John 16:1-33
Discourse on Revelation
John 17:1-26
Jesus' High Priestly Prayer
John 18:1-19:16
Jesus' Arrest and Trial
John 19:17-42
Jesus' Crucifixion & Burial
John 20:1-31
Empty Tomb
John 21:1-14
Jesus Provides
John 21:15-25
Jesus Reinstates Peter
Wilmont Place Baptist Church • 6440 S. Santa Fe Ave • Oklahoma City, OK 73139 • 405.634.0440
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  • The Journey
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