We're starting by talking a little about Billy Sunday. For people who were here in 2020 for the first version of this sermon, they might remember this. So to keep setting us up here, Jesus met Nicodemus in the middle of the night, which gives us John However, I don't like the way it's been used. It's been used to reduce Christianity into a system of beliefs. Just believe the right things and you go to heaven. Bruh, boring. This then gets used to divide people.What Jesus was offering was a whole life transformation. Born again. The etymology of the word "believe" in German is actually connected to the word "love." So to believe something (or in someone) is to invest it with our love. Belief is important to God because love is important to God.So maybe the invitation is something like this: maybe the questions you've been afraid to ask = the faith you feel you've outgrown - the certainty that no longer fits - maybe those things aren't a threat. Maybe they're birth pangs - contractions - a sign that something new is trying to be born - a new YOU is trying to be born.Speaker: Aaron VisScripture: John http://bible.com/events/49572821