Bucket Full of Grace

Jesus is the Atonement Title : Jesus the Atonement Subject : Atonement Text Scripture : 1 John 2:1-2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. Introduction -Do you ever think about words?  Where words come from… What words really mean… how words can express deep feelings and ideas by putting them together in new ways… words are a made up vehicle for expressing reality.  They are not the real thing. Words are a shadow of the real thing, an analogy of the real thing. Sometimes the real thing is so deep and so important that it takes a huge amount of words just to scratch the surface of what we know the reality to be.  Then we might come up with a single word that puts that huge amount of words together and we just reference all of it with ...