Experience God in a New Way

Main message: The sermon launches the "All Things New" series by unpacking 1 John 1:1–4: Jesus is the Logos/the "Word of life"—the invisible reason who became visible—bringing new life and restoring fellowship with the Father so believers experience and share that joy. The pastor urges listeners to pursue deeper intimacy with God and to overflow with that joy by inviting others to receive it.

Key points:

• 1 John 1 opens with eyewitness testimony ("heard, seen, looked at, touched") emphasizing Jesus as the "Word of life" made flesh.
• "Logos" (the Word) in Greco-Roman thought denotes the ordering reason of the universe; John asserts that this ordering principle entered history in Jesus.
• The origins question is framed as accident versus design: John presents a purposeful, intelligible creation grounded in the divine Logos.
• Humans are experiential creatures; knowing God involves seeing, hearing, touching, and entering into fellowship with the Father and the Son.
• Application: be filled with the new life and joy of Christ so that you intentionally invite others into that fellowship (sharing the gospel), completing communal joy.

Scriptures mentioned: 1 John 1:1–4, John 1:1–2, Revelation 21:5