The John Project

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So I've been reading through the gospel of John. It's been really good and I've been receiving some stuff from the text I never have before. It's been hitting me that a lot of Christians today, me included, suffer from what Shane Claiborne calls "spiritual bulimia."

I did my devotions, read all the new Christian books and saw the Christian movies, and then vomited information up to friends, small groups, and pastors. But it had never had the chance to digest.

I started feeling this too and I wanted to find some way for me to meditate on the book now that it's so fresh. I decided on memorizing the book.

....didn't get that far....haha

So instead I got inspiration to do something a little more practical that I can also enjoy. I want to create a project of the book of John where through art I express the things God's been showing me in the text. It helps me process and, like a journal, I can refer back to it whenever I want. I say "art" because I've noticed that when I decide a detail of a project beforehand, I usually get really anal about it and quench creativity. I don't want to just limit it to music. I don't want to just limit it to chapter by chapter. But so far that's what it looks like.

This is far different than anything I've done before because it'll take a lot of commitment and patience. When I'm in the creative process, I've never really done stuff big picture oriented. This is really gonna take some discipline. With that said, I shouldn't isolate myself. I would love for people to know about the process and keep it in prayer. So please, pray for me as I share this journey track by track. I'm also way down for doing collab stuff on this. I don't want to be alone in this project. That just wouldn't feel right. God's design of community makes everything better. If you have a gift you wanna share in this, holla at me. Music's not the only gift.

I know this post may look like a form of "spiritual bulimia." Maybe it is. But I assure you my intentions for the project leave no room for such a thing.

I pray that it be a uniquely beautiful project that brings glory to Your name. And Lord, I also want to acknowledge now for sake of Your glory and my freedom that I do not expect this project to represent every truth in these chapters. I pray that I point people to Your word and acknowledge that it could never be a substitute. What I do pray is that what you wish me to apply and others to learn from it would be represented. Amen.