Pew2You
Pastor Tom Weaver
Small, but Powerful
Dec. 18th, 2016
Highlights:
1. God loves to use small things with impossible odds to do really big things and coming as a baby has everything to do with relationships.
2. Jesus coming from Nazareth is a statement of His values. The weak, the humble, the poor and the needy are primary to His mission.
3. Jesus likes His people to trust Him and to depend on Him as their answer for everything.
4. Because of His love for us, He was willing to be pierced that He might pierce our hearts with His love.
Discussion Questions:
1. Discuss together the question Pastor Tom posed, “Why did Jesus come as a baby? Why did God choose to do it that way?”
2. What does it mean to you that God has made a way for us to be free of the fear of death and dying?
3. If the aim of Jesus’ method of coming was to be fully relational, then how are you relating to the way He came to us in your present situation? What does His ability to understand your situation mean to you?
Key Scriptures:
-For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9:6-7 NIV
-Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
Isaiah 8:22 NIV
-Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
Hebrews 2:14-15 NIV
-For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16 NIV