December
How well do you know the Christmas story?
Try this quiz ...
1. Mary travelled to Bethlehem on a donkey.
2. Which Gospel mentions the innkeeper?
3. Jesus was born in a stable.
4. What's wrong with this picture.
5. After the angels appeared to the shepherds they sang their praises to God.
6.How did the Magi travel to Bethlehem?
7. How many Magi came to worship Jesus?
8. What's wrong with this nativity scene?
Once you take from the picture all those things that don't really belong:
the warm, softly illuminated stable,
the clean, sweet-smelling hay,
the doe-eyed animals ...
What's left?
... the simple yet astonishing truth that God became man so that mankind can know God.
The God who designed and created this world chose to become a man. He chose to share the frailty of our humanity and live as a servant in a sin ravaged world.
He came into the world to save sinners - sinners like you and me.
God as man, living a perfect life.
God as man, dying to bear the judgment that I deserve.
(Graham
Kendrick)
