worship

Happy Fourth Day of Christmas!

The twelve days of Christmas begin on December 25th and goes through January 5th. This is time to focus on the "Incarnation" or the idea that Jesus is God in the flesh. Where we often hear philosophical debates around how God could become a human (and remain one), without losing his divinity consumed the early church and continue to drive debates today, I think we often miss the plot if that's what we focus on. This week we consider how the gospel of John portrays Jesus as "light" and "child" and "Word". But we'll take a different twist as we consider what the "Word" or logos might mean in light of Genesis 1 and the kind of words God spoke in creation. What if instead of "Word" being some kind of encyclopedia of "being" we consider the more ancient notion of "Word" as an account, an evaluation, a judgment, given through telling an account (i.e. a story)? How might this change the way we think about Jesus?

Rev. Dr. Gregory Wagenfuhr