Christmas: A single word to sum it up

12 HIMS showed up to get better this morning, well the Q (Huckleberry) got out of his truck in shorts and t shirt and sounded awful, but was still there. We were honored to have the incoming Nantan (Sargento) in our gloom this morning. Everyone did miles this morning.

COT:

A Single Word to Sum Up Christmas

If you had to summarize the Christmas story with one word, what word would you choose? Now, your word would have to capture what this story points to as the core of human need and the way God would meet that need. Do you have a word in mind? Maybe you’re thinking that it’s just not possible to summarize the greatest story ever with one word. But I think you can. Let’s consider one lovely, amazing, history-changing, and eternally significant word.

It doesn’t take paragraph after paragraph, written on page after page, filling volume after volume to communicate how God chose to respond to the outrageous rebellion of Adam and Eve and the subtle and not-so-subtle rebellion of everyone since. God’s response to the sin of people against his rightful and holy rule can be captured in a single word. I wonder if you thought, “I know the word: grace.”

Without the gift of Jesus, grace would be a promise with no power.

But the single word that captures God’s response to sin even better than the word grace is not a theological word; it is a name. That name is Jesus. God’s response wasn’t a thing. It wasn’t the establishment of an institution. It wasn’t a process of intervention. It wasn’t some new divine program. In his infinite wisdom God knew that the only thing that could rescue us from ourselves and repair the horrendous damage that sin had done to the world was not a thing at all. It was a person, his Son, the Lord Jesus.

Prayer request:

Big Pappy and family, Sister Act’s 2.0, Sargento’s friend, Wichita’s co worker, many others.

Announcements:

Convergence Jan 1 @ Midoriyama 7am

We did pledge

Wichita took us out.

Sarlacc out.