We’d love to have you join us for a new sermon series that’s starting this Sunday called Christmas By The Numbers. Sometimes Christmas ends up being more of a math equation than the meaningful time it was intended to be. All too often Christmas ends up being about the numbers. How many gifts should each kid get so things will be fair? How much did we spend on your sister’s kids last year? And on and on and on.
This Christmas we’re going to experience Christmas by the numbers—the only numbers that should really matter this time of the year . . . the numbers 3:16, as in John 3:16. Christmas doesn’t have to be complex. Let's make this Christmas a little more meaningful by focusing on numbers that matter. Here are a few translations of that verse:
(The Message) This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
