Pete Greig

Before Jesus, the Bible has just 40 references to God as Father, but the New Testament has more than 260! And Jesus wasn’t just pointing people to a distant, Freudian father figure in the sky. He dared to call God Abba (Mark 14:36), a word used by any normal kid at the time to express love for their dad. The single key that explains everything Jesus did was this intimate relationship he shared with his Father. In prayer each day he learned to listen to God, and then he lived his whole life simply speaking his Father’s words and doing his works (John 5:19).