Believing is Seeing: A Guide for Responding to John's Gospel

by Bruce McNab

"What are you looking for?" These are Jesus's first words in John's Gospel, and he asks us the same question when we decide to follow him. We read John's Gospel because it helps us get closer to Jesus. We're like the first disciples, who answer his question with their own, "Master, where can we find you?" Only near the end of John's story do we learn the Jesus lives in the hearts of all who love him. Believing is Seeing guides readers to believe more deeply in Jesus of Nazareth as the human face of God, seen through the eyes of his beloved disciple. It beckons us to bring to his gospel our soul-searching questions. Do Jesus's words stake a claim on my life? Does John's gospel test me intellectually, spiritually, or morally? Does John's portrait of Jesus make me see him a new way, pray differently, even live differently? Believing in Jesus, the Son of God, shapes how we perceive our own identity, the world around us, the nature of truth, and our relationship with God. To believe is to see with love's eyes.

388 pages, Paperback

Published August 22, 2016

About the author

Bruce McNab earned a doctorate in medieval history from Princeton.

His first publication was Military Arrays of the Clergy in England, 1369-1418, an essay in a volume published in honor of the late Joseph R. Strayer, entitled Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages (Princeton U.P., 1976).

He was ordained as an Episcopal priest and became a parish priest and pastor, serving six parishes between 1974 and 2011. He was active as a teacher, guest speaker, workshop leader and consultant.
Retired from full-time parish work in 2011 he moved to Bozeman, Montana and became the permanent part-time priest at Christ Church in the small town of Sheridan, Montana.