People are spiritually hungry in the West, but we are facing a crisis.  People are unwilling to worship the real Jesus.  Rather they want to worship a Jesus of their own making, an ala carte God, one in their own image.  When this happens it leads to a different gospel, a different Jesus (Gal. 1:6; 2 Cor 11:4), and doing so leads one to more blindness, more confusion, more lostness.  That's why God gave us the second commandment (Ex. 20:3) to not make for ourselves any graven (false) images.  This is where John's gospel is so crucial, as he knew the real Jesus.   Not only did John know Jesus in the flesh, but he also understood the theological implications of who He was.  John 1 opens with soaring theology.  The opening verses give us three big thoughts:  1) God is pre-existing; 2) God is Truth; 3) God is one.  All these are crucial to helping us fall in love with the real Jesus.  Full message here.