Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

John 1:1-14

  • The prologue to John reminds us of the eternal nature of God and the particular joy of the Incarnation gives us everlasting comfort and joy.

  • The prologue of John offers us a totally different, radical, empowering vision of what God is doing to transform the world.

  • John’s gospel invites us to see the scope of what we celebrate at Christmas: that an event changes how we see everything.

  • In reading the opening of the gospel of John on Christmas Day, we get a better sense of God’s vision for creation.

  • In “the Word became flesh,” we are offered a truth claim that speaks, not only to the nature of Jesus, but of God.

  • In the light of Christmas Day, we can see a different side to Christmas. The part that we play in the big Jesus Event.