What is Christmas really about?
Here some possible conversation spices for the festive season.
- Christmas is really about the great God-invasion. When he stuck his face in ours.
- Christmas shows you what God thinks of humans – he became one of us (but so does Good Friday – pity about that: he put us to death!).
- Christmas means peace on earth – as long as you are at peace with God.
- It must have been a confusing time at Jesus' birth. A blinding light-show, super-rich visitors from half way around the world, local smelly shepherds, an animals' feeding trough as a bassinet, a dad who was a tradesman (well that was good anyway), and a serious attempt to murder him by the political elite. Actually it was quite a good start for someone whose task was to bring together a new united humanity.
- Do you think Jesus was a difficult teenager – he was certainly a difficult adult?
- Do you think Joseph’s dad said, “Tell Joseph he’s dreaming!”?
- Were the wise men really nutters? Can you imagine anyone doing that nowadays?
- What do you think Mary and Joseph did with the gold, frankincense and myrrh? What you have done with it?
- Did you know that there probably was no inn? It was really the guest room in a house that was full. [The word is used in the NT also in Mark 14.14.] How would you like to have a baby in an overcrowded two-room house?
- Would it have made a difference if Joseph was really the father?
- Your spicy question/comment: “ ............................................”
Dale