Alive Wesleyan

Christmas is this tension between style and substance.  If we remove the manger from the Nativity, can we still have Christmas?  Matthew 1:1 (NIV84) A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: Do you know what the name Jesus means? It means “He saves John 3:16–17 (NIV84) 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Sometimes we get confused and think Jesus came to make a nice and naughty list. That isn’t Jesus that is Santa. Jesus came to save us, not tell on us. Jesus came with one clear purpose, to save. He saves.