When I was a youth, my cousin said he was going to play in the NBA. It wasn’t that he stated he wanted to play, or that he was trying to play, but he emphatically declared he would play at the professional level. With serious doubt, but also with a little curiosity, I asked how he could be so sure. Without missing a beat, he began to list his stats and compared them to Michael Jordan. Now my cousin was just a freshman playing JV at his high school. He wasn’t playing for a school that was known to be in a difficult league and he wasn’t even playing half the time per game as Jordan, but if you ignored all of that, my cousin had the same shot percentage as his hero.

While perhaps a little overconfident, my cousin did understand that it’s easy to say something is true, but it’s something else to back up those claims. What my cousin didn’t seem to understand is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Your shot percentage in JV basketball, no matter how good it is, isn’t enough to get you in the NBA.

This week we look at an extraordinary claim Jesus made in John 10. However, Jesus, as the expression goes, came with receipts. Join us as we look at what Jesus profoundly declares about himself and the evidence he brings to back up his claim.

In Christ,

Chappy