{ Acknowledgments }

We would like to express our appreciation to Dr. Jerry Vines and his staff for allowing us to publish this book based on the presentations given at the John 3:16 Conference. We appreciate each scholar who contributed a chapter to the book, as well as Dr. Johnny Hunt for his foreword and Dr. James Leo Garrett Jr. for his preface. The editors and staff at B&H Academic have been of superb assistance, particularly Dr. Terry Wilder, Jim Baird, Dean Richardson, and Emily Cheney. We were also greatly assisted in the manuscript editing by Christopher Black and Pam Cole at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. And thanks to the many Baptists who have been encouraging us to write such a volume. We hope that it accomplishes its purpose and glorifies the Lord.
David L. Allen
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth, Texas

Steve Lemke
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
New Orleans, Louisiana