Series Overview
A manger. A baby. Shepherds. Stars. The Christmas story is one we look at with great reverence. The peaceful scene is recreated and plastered on everything from phone backgrounds to lawn decorations. But the Christmas story is more than a just a story we look back on and remember. It’s ongoing. It’s active. It’s a story that required a response over 2,000 years ago, and one that requires a response today. It’s a story that invites us to participate in it even today—because the Christmas story is the neverending story.
Session One: Invited to...
When
a story is small and distant, it really doesn’t have much impact in
our lives, does it? It solicits a nod, a smile, a “that’s nice.”
But it doesn’t affect us. It doesn’t move us. It doesn’t shake
us. And while many people, us included, tend to approach the
Christmas story, the story of Jesus’ birth, in a familiar, typical
and remote sort of way, it’s not that kind of story. The Christmas
story, at its very core demands a response—good or bad—from you,
from me—from anyone who hears it.