Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, performed their annual over the top Super Bowl-themed sermon, where the church staff and congregants participate in a service that’s loosely framed as four quarter football game, but with preaching and inspirational messaging.
Though its home base of operations is in Cincinnati, Crossroads has a number of established smaller church plants through Ohio and Kentucky, totaling around 40,000 active members.
The megachurch, led by Senior Pastor Brian Tome, has not shied away from pushing the boundaries of what’s considered acceptable Christian behavior.
In 2015 Crossroads published a blog post defending their blase attitudes towards sin and Christian conduct, by one of the members and volunteers. Crossroads has adopted a mantra they call “Anything Short of Sin” (ASOS). Rachel Reider, editor for the megachurch wrote:
It was the first time I heard that Crossroads would do anything short of sin to get people in the door. At first, that phrase alone sounded too provocative, and I bristled. But then I broke it down. OK, if it’s short of sin, it’s not sinning. So, maybe it’s OK.
It began a huge unraveling of religious “hedges” I’d grown up with—the idea that we have to create new rules around God’s design for fear of getting too close to messing up. I’d always heard God wanted a relationship and not religion (read: rules). I’d even taught it myself, but I’d never felt it like this. I didn’t realize God was after oneness rooted in trust—not obedience driven by fear, control, or even good behavior.
Maybe we could talk about normal stuff in a normal way. Maybe we could let that authenticity create a bridge back to God. Maybe we could rely on the Holy Spirit to lead us into freedom instead of relying on our ability to follow the rules. Maybe we could be less afraid of sin and more aggressive about helping new people meet Jesus.
Reider wrote
She would go on to explain: “But I can promise you—we’re not after shock value. We’re not trying to be cool.”
Each and every year Crossroads hosts their “Super Bowl of Preaching.” And though they say they are “not after shock value,” the marketing and presentations definitely say otherwise.
In 2014 Crossroads released a promo building anticipation for their Super Bowl of Preaching, featuring a Bible getting intimate in bed with a football.
Crossroads has tried to outdo itself since then it would seem.
In 2020, lead-female pastor Allie Patterson was seen punting a Bible decorated as a football across the stage into the crowd.
This year’s service featured a very elaborate entrance by the participating players in a wild stage entrance, featuring hype music, confetti, a band, and contestants running through a cheering crowd carrying “spicy casserole.”
And just like before, the pastors on stage kicked the Bible like a football, only this time it appeared to be a squib kick trying to recover an onside kick, resulting in the pastors diving for the Bible in a scrum. Watch it here:
Their Super Bowl of Preaching also had a number of parody ads that played in-between the actual competition portion. One of these included a parody of the roadside assistance company AAA, instead calling it “loadside assistance” for people struggling with severe diarrhea and gut issues, and who make a mess all over themselves and need a cleanup:
Moreover, the ‘halftime show’ mid-sermon, featured music by Usher, ACDC, Toby Keith, and a pastor recreating Miley Cyrus’ viral ‘Wrecking Ball’ music video.
The entire event can be viewed on Crossroads’ website.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[47] Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. [48] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Ezekiel 16:47-48
Not even Sodom – “and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” – did not even do what is being done now, by so-called “Christians” no less!!
Allow me to put this in simple terms: these people are going to spend all of eternity burning in hell, and the lake of fire, and will be utterly destroyed along with the rest of this God-hating country, and all those who condone this and participate in it.
[7] And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, [8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [9] Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; [10] When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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A perfect illustration of how this nation as well as so-called “Christians” feel about the Bible.
Proverbs 1:29-30
[29]For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
[30]They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Isaiah 5:24
[24]Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 6:19
[19]Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Reminds me of what Jesus said would happen to a true Christian who attempts to penetrate these apostate churches in these last days!:
John 16:1-3 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble. (2) They shall put you out of the synagogues(churches): yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God. (3) And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
We are already in the 3rd year of this timeline!:
https://sumofthyword.com/2016/10/04/the-rapture-of-the-church-is-after-the-tribulation/
Stop posting this nonsense. If you actually think that we are in the midst of Time of JACOB’s trouble right now (Jeremiah 30), you are quite deceived. These will be seen as the GOOD times. The terror and tread of the day of the Lord has not even begun to occur yet.
No we’re not. This is a walk in the park compared to what will be going on in the Tribulation. The Two Witnesses, the 144K evangelists, the angels above, the plagues. This is nothing compared to the wrath of God. PLUS, the believers will be out of here, as in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
Rob, Sadly, if you really knew your Bible, you would not make such egregious and offending posts. Quit listening to pastors and start reading and thinking for yourself. Trust that the Holy Spirit will guide you. Shalom, BuffaloBilly
Apostate churches are the majority, state run 501c3 entertainment centers. We church online some use zoom.
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:15-16
Of all the heretical blasphemies hiding under the banner of “christianity”:
Christian rock/christian rap
Wannabe cool guy youth “pastors”
Jokes and goofy stories
The charismatic satan rituals
Skits and comedy acts
Veggietales
Puppet shows
The Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) cult indoctrination school program
…And too many more to count…
All of them pathetic replacements for the King James Bible and all of them blasphemy. But this super bowl preaching clown show, THIS TAKES THE CAKE!!!
If this cringe fest is preaching, then I’m a Siberian tiger tiger!
God is going to vomit these buffoons out of His mouth, you can bet the farm on that!
Anybody with a speck of common sense and at least two brain cells knocking together knows that junk does NOT glorify or praise God in the slightest!
These morons think God is all about having fun and laughing, so according to them, I guess they think God is a birthday party clown. Boy are they in for a shock and a terrifying one at that, starting with God’s righteous indignation slamming this country starting this year and beyond!
America is Mystery Babylon described in Revelation 18! This nation is about to fall in one hour. In 2017 was a solar eclipse that crossed only the USA. This April 8th 2024, almost exactly 7 years later, will be another Eclipse from the opposite direction as the one in 2017 that will make an X on this nation. Judgment is upon this nation because of the very perdition and apostacy shown on this Super Bowl Preaching half time at Crossroads Church.
Jeremiah 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: [10] For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
And nothing will happen on April 8th. Stop stargazing and divining by it. America is definitely not Mystery Babylon. Revelation 17 more than proves it is the Vatican.
The Vatican is not “Mystery Babylon”. Mystery is the rebirth of the secret mystery schools. Masonry is Judaism for the Gentiles. Read your Bible. Jesus said he is not in the secret chambers. The Bible also says the prophets die in Jerusalem as do the last 2 witnesses. The abomination known as Israel today is the end of this, it is the Synagogue of Satan just as Jesus warned us about. Jesus said he is the way and the truth and no one comes to Father but through him. The Jews don’t have Jesus, therefore they don’t have the Father. Meditate on that.
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. [28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. [29] For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. [30] For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: [31] Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. [32] For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Meditate on that.
Roman 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (KJV TRUE AND ONLY WORD OF GOD) it was God who is come in the flesh (Jesus Christ) and he came as a Jew it was God who used Jews to wright the bible THROUGH the Holy Ghost if it wasn’t for Jews the True Bible KJV Believing Christan’s would not be hear. https://youtu.be/hlVIjufB-L0?si=kt2B68q0rtfiYWzA
Richard Gary Mooney get things stranded out with God because America is not Mystery Babylon it’s the Roman Catholic system aka the Vatican and brother Jacob is right Revelation 17 just proves that it is none other than the Vatican I recommend watching this video https://youtu.be/U20IJM5xWag?si=9Kg9CFuOcoOu1Up9 and a few books called: Babylon Religion, Smokescreens who is the “Whore” of Revelation?, The Secret History of the Jesuits, and Alberto Rivera testimony and his comic books it is very important that you know who God truly is https://youtu.be/5UYvMcy4RcM?si=laagE27tLT8aaPDn
No Melaney, you are wrong. It is not the Vatican. And no, I am so not Catholic.
https://youtu.be/tQIYCqIuNNM?si=K6CamFe1DRWAF06a
hahaha which babel building you catch your devils from, baby?!
Even tho i knows you be trollin, There is still time to get saved.
pride and sin always get souls mingled with devils.
What in the world are you talking about? how am I being prideful trying to warn someone of what the word of God says? the Lord God Jesus Christ took me out of those wicked pagan buildings long ago and no I will not be trollind down because God who is Jesus Christ will protect me 1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. (KJV) Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.(KJV) and yes I am saved and yes I know it to 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. from the true and only word of God the KJV bible. I think you should watch this https://youtu.be/IoLM_KnA-5g?si=hDLFPHx4dnoHnzin
https://winepressnews.com/2024/02/13/ohio-megachurch-performs-annual-super-bowl-themed-service-pastor-punts-bible-across-stage-like-football/
THAT is what is gonna make you puke!
Took the words right out of my mouth. Kudos
I went there years ago when i was lost, and back then I knew something was way off and it was cringeworthy then. Its a complete abomination, and i am partly ashamed to say I live here in Cincinnati with all of this wickedness in this state and city.
God bless the true Christians exposing this foolish nonsense.
Good thing you got out of there!
126) It is time for thee, LORD, to work: For they have made void thy law.
127) Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128) Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; And I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:126-128
Psalms 119:126 seems to have a correlation or work in connection with 1 Peter 4:17, doesn’t it?
Joel Osteen’s mega cult center shooting is only the beginning, Jacob!
What’s coming next for American church buildings and fake christians is going to make the Lakewood shooting seem like accidentally spilling a drink.
I look forward to shootings, fires, strange disasters, and weird troubles coming to Jimmy Swaggart, John Hagee, John MacArthur, Andy Stanley, Joyce Meyer, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, and CROSSROADS!
Why John MacArthur? Curious.
read what he did about a woman whose husband (was a member of iMacs cabal) ended up in prison for child molestation and wife abuse. and his satanic err Christian bible college and why a woman should bear a beating in the hopes the husband will come around to Christ. And the 400k in tax payors money he stole err was awarded in a lawsuit that he could have easily said nahhhh keep the money it was the point i was trying to make.
You know Joel Olsteen was interviewed about that and he said it was truly devestating, yet had a smile or smirk on his face, which makes me wonder if it wasn’t planned, why would you smile if something that truly devestating happened at YOUR “church?” Should be on YT, don’t remember the guy’s name that interviewed him.
Andrew, the list of false teachers is much longer than what you mentioned, which is sad. I pray the Lord comes quickly! Jesse DuPlantis is one of the worst, as is Benny Hinn, Beth Moore and several more.
Amen praise the Lord!
I had always heard that Cinncinati was a major witchcraft and occult city back in the day (1960s and 70s).
DISGRACEFUL
Interesting how the NFL effortlessly replaced Church on Sunday. Now we see satanic halftimes at the most watched (by men) football game of the year, and few bat an eye. What comes after the falling away? 2 Thessalonians 2
And the end times / latter days was literally defined with the Diaspora (70AD) and the Return (rebirth of Israel in 1948) throughout the Old and New Testaments.
The attack is on the Word of God and Christian people are playing around and deny there is even a battle going on
Acts 2:38-39
King James Version
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
I’d like to see these idiots kick the Koran. The word of God is sacred.
never would have the guts to do that. the Muslims would do what we Christians should be doing. go after these blasphemers.
You beat me to it. I was thinking, how would the Muslims react to tossing the Torah into the congregation………they’d have some heads chopped off by noon. One thing you have to give ’em, they stick by their beliefs and you better not say anything against them……or else you will die.
Dumb
Sports are a cult. Superbowl half time entertainment are Masonic rituals.
https://www.acallforanuprising.com/videos
THE ILLUMINATI SUPERBOWL HALFTIME RITUAL AND THE USHERING IN OF THE PHOENIX RISING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSHAUxqj_c&t=16s
A RIGGED “GAME” OF 33’S! THE SUPERBOWL FIX WAS JUST AS THE ILLUMINATI DREW IT UP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=742gb-qJjbM
PFIZER’S DUPING DELIGHT SUPER BOWL AD COULDN’T BE CLEARER ABOUT WHAT’S COMING NEXT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8sx4oBj-e8
HE DOESN’T GET US! SATAN MASQUERADES AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT DURING THE SUPERBOWL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbhG4JXoXhI&t=6s
YOU KNOW IT’S A FALLEN WORLD WHEN THE WICKED WITCH IS BEING PROMOTED AS A VICTIM AND A HERO!
Is this handling GOD’S word “reverently”? No. Not in the least. It’s a shameful display meant to attract attention.
Isaiah 66
(King James Version)
1 “Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?”
2 “For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.”
Psalm 138
(King James Version)
2 “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”
How blind can these people be, that go to this “church”?! Is this praising God and giving Him all the Glory, I think not, they kicked a Bible (probably not a KJV), but the idea of even thinking of God’s word like a football.
Good grief what BLASPHEMY..
Crossroads is one of those ‘franchise’ churches….like New Pointe. Idolatrous humanism & antichrist all the way. Even their trademarks/emblems, whatever they call them are blasphemous. Their signage & ‘campaigns’ are all co-ordinated with worldly events, movie releases etc. It’s all wordcraft to them, linked in to the world, & no one gets saved in those places.
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Like the Chinese Three Self Patriotic Movement, & psych-sorcery all the way. Police direct traffic for those places: how’s that work? Always pray when passing the one in our area, that God would free people of that bondage & lead them out; thanking Him for keeping me out of that thing….I knew the jerk who went to school & ‘became a pastor’ to become one of the founders of it.
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He always had better ideas than the Bible, & came of a Masonic family that had bought up lots of farmland as smaller farms sold out through the years. Grew lots of corn & soybeans. Used lots of pestacides & fertilizers.
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The elder lady used to like to talk about ‘the hands’ & ‘the help’. Quite the lady of the manse.
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I really wasn’t impressed, & used to wonder how it had come about that all those farms went belly-up in the banking & inflation games, sold for peanuts at auctions in the ’70’s & ’80’s…..while ‘ag’ became a subject taught at the vocational schools where drugs especially abounded, & the descendants of once free & landholding farmers worked for peanuts on land their elders had once owned, & were cringingly ‘thankful’ to have such jobs. Working for the ilk of which their elders would have scorned to associate with.
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That founding corporate pastor guy, he’d sent his kids off to some ‘Christian’ university in California & was always on about ‘the new ways’. He kept getting shot down at the little church they were ‘transforming’…more gradually, the wallets in the pews weren’t quite ready for that yet. So, he left & did his own little franchise deal.
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The kids came back & were part of it, & another franchise ‘church’ type deal more popular north of here: Raintree.
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That was before the Rick Warren thing really went big.
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom…” Prov. 9: 10. What fools! Jesus will kick their sorry butts into the lake of fire, just as they’ve kicked His Word around.
Just when I think the Church cannot get any worse, the next news story tops the previous ones. We’re definitely living in the times of the signs! Then again, I have to be very careful as to who I include as being the “Church” these days.
““They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” I Jn. 2: 19.
I’m don’t believe these clowns were ever “of us” to begin with.
Howdy Skywatcher, The Church is the 5% of those professing Christ who actually know and believe God’s Word, have a Biblical world-view, and their walk with God actually matches their talk about God. Those at Crossroads are sadly misinformed and indeed are standing at a “crossroad”. Nice to see you on line again. Shalom, BB
All from the true and only word of God the KJV Bible, Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Proverbs 1:25-33 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: [26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; [27] When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. [28] Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: [29] For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: [30] They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. [31] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. [32] For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. [33] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Hebrews 10: 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
When God judges those wicked people along with that wicked page building I will be laughing and mocking alongside with God because they are reciting God’s mercy that he shed on the cross and they are contently mocking him every day (Psalm 7:11). May God judge those wicked people and those wicked buildings! https://youtu.be/eUVKUHNY5Mg?si=O2IgnG4bDZTbe_X3
which version was kicked?
I think it was the NFL bible (New Found Life – NFL) and it’s made with football leather and it has football laces on the spine. Chances are higher than high, it’s a perversion of God’s word.
SALVATION
We believe every person is disobedient to God’s desires and plans in varying degrees. Any disobedience to God, regardless of how large or small, is characterized as “sin.” “Sin” literally separates each person from God, which is spiritual death. Spiritual death is not God’s desire. People can be united with God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and Him alone. Jesus died for sinners. Anyone who accepts, and believes in Jesus’ death for their personal sins, and desires to have Him as King of their life, is forgiven for every sin. Upon this personal decision, God re-establishes a personal relationship with that person and promises eternal life.
Romans 3:23-24, 5:12, 5:16, 6:23; Psalms 51:4-5; John 3:16, 14:6; Acts 4:12, 10:43; Ephesians 2:8-9; Colossians 1:13-14; 1 John 5:11-13
From Crossroads own website. They believe in the trinity and salvation. Enough said. Get off your high horses. They are legit JESUS lovers.
https://youtu.be/WeJhJ8dmICE?si=yYxM-03d_279rh9X It’s Godhed not trinity and if they did love Jesus they would not even dare to kick a bible (I do not know if it was the true word of God that they kick (the KJV) or some other perversion so-called bible)
I believe it was a perversion of the bible that they kicked; but in any case, if they kick a counterfeit bible, chances are they’ll they’ll kick the King James Bible – I mean, look what they did with it in one of their promo videos, placing a Bible and a football in bed pretending like they were conceiving a baby, chances are that was a King James Bible! They are in SERIOUS DANGER for doing that!
I agree with you to.
Then you are going to hell along with them, plain and simple.
Romans 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Howdy Nick, Based on your post, then y’all are legalistic and that is not a true Christian trait. There are millions of people who profess the name of Christ, and differ in beliefs, and really don’t practice what they believe. You can say one thing… but what is observable is another and it shames GOD the Father to see these abominations from His children. What is on display does not in any way edify the Father, His Son Jesus, or the Holy Spirit. It all brought attention to men. Sounds to me like you need to check the view from your horse, too. Shalom, BuffaloBilly
Reading from the Gospel of John, first verse…”In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the WORD WAS GOD.” Every time you hold a King James Bible in your hands, you are holding the Lord Jesus. Think about that…and how some “Christians” treat the Bible. It is so very much more than “just a book”. GOD loves us, yes; but He is also the judge of all mankind and means what He says in His word… we should be equally serious about our faith and walk with Him.
Shalom
You forgot to capitalize Word because when the bible has a big W that is one of Jesus (who is God) titles and if it is a little w it is talking about the only true word of God the KJV bible and something to note God only loves his own not the lost world see: https://youtu.be/E3TlJNTfek8?si=XPyenaJXguOdJ0ow https://youtu.be/1_zMXYY16pQ?si=8yWS0LuDvB1r8fGH