Sunday, December 21, 2025
Divine Intervention #3 - The Miracle of the Message

WELCOME   (15 minutes)
Ice Breaker: Tell a funny or frustrating story of a time you totally misunderstood someone (text misread, email tone, directions). What happened, and how was it resolved? 

 WORSHIP (10 minutes)

• Using your favorite streaming service, sing together “O, Come All Ye Faithful” by Chris Tomlin AND “O Holy Night” by Rock City Worship. Lyrics are on the back.
• During this ADVENT season – sing these familiar carols as WORSHIP!

 WIN   (15 minutes)

• Pray for any lost people your group is reaching out to!
• Pray that some of these people would accept an invitation to come to church with you at the Holiday Season!

 WORD (25 minutes)

1. Read Hebrews 1:1–3. What stands out to you about the contrast between “long ago, at many times and in many ways God spoke…” and “in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son”? How does that idea—that Jesus is God’s final and clearest Word—challenge the way you tend to think about God speaking? 
2. The sermon said, “Christmas is God speaking our language. Jesus is the message.” If someone at work or in your family asked, “What does that even mean?” how would you explain it in simple, everyday language? Where does that feel beautiful to you, and where does it feel uncomfortable? 
3. Read John 1:1–5,14. The sermon explained how Logos (the Word) connected with both Greek philosophers and Jewish readers—ultimate reality and the “Word of the Lord” who acts in history. How does it hit you that the “guiding force behind the universe” and the “Word of the Lord” shows up not as an idea but as a Person with a name, a face, and a body? 
4. Hebrews 1 says Jesus is “the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature,” and that He “upholds the universe by the word of His power.” Where is it hardest for you to believe that the Jesus in the manger is the same Jesus who holds galaxies together and was nailed to a cross for you? How might your view of your circumstances shift if you took that seriously this week? 
5. The sermon asked, “What needs to bow in you?” What would it actually look like, in practical terms, for that thing to “bow” to Jesus this week?

 WORKS (25 minutes)   
Break up into twos and threes. Pray for each other!