The Reason for the Season: Week 4 - The King

The Christmas story makes one thing very clear: Jesus was born as king. But do we recognize Him as King or do we recognize Him as someone else?

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Reading: Luke 1 and Matthew 2

Discussion Questions:

  1. Why is understanding that Jesus is king so important?

  2. How do you tend to see Jesus? As your backup plan, as your cleaner, or as your BFF?

  3. Herod understood Jesus as king, but he refused to surrender to him. In what ways do you act like Herod with Jesus’ kingship?

  4. What are you called to surrender to Jesus the king that you are having trouble surrendering?

The Reason for the Season: Week 3 - The True Good News

Luke tells us that the birth of Jesus brings us good news of great joy for all people. But is the news actually good? Is it even true? When you learn the true message of Jesus, it is easy to see how good it truly is.

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Reading: Luke 5 and 6

Discussion Questions:

  1.  What Christmas traditions do you have and how did they start?

  2. How much of the Christmas origin story do you know? Does it affect your faith to know where the origin of Christmas came from?

  3. Why do you believe that Christianity is true?

  4.  How does the good news Jesus brought get perceived as not good news in our culture?

  5. Why is the “good news of great joy for all people” such good news for us?

The Reason for the Season: Week 2 - Demonstration

If we are the reason for the Christmas season, what does God want to tell us about himself through Jesus? In John 14, Jesus tells us the answer. Through Jesus, we know who God is and what He is like.

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Icebreaker: What is your favorite Christmas present you’ve ever given?

Reading: John 14

Discussion Questions:

  1. What doubts and uncertainty do you struggle with? How have those doubts and struggles affected your faith?

  2. If Jesus demonstrates what God is like, who is God and what does God care about?

  3. How does knowing that Jesus demonstrated what God is like change the way you read scripture, you look at your faith, you look at life, etc...

  4. What do you tend to draw your conclusions of God on?

The Reason for the Season: Week 1 - The Christmas Story

You probably have heard the saying “Jesus is the reason for the season.” But that isn’t actually true. We are the reason for the season. When you understand the story of Christmas, it makes the Christmas story a lot easier to believe.

Icebreaker: What is your favorite Christmas present you’ve ever received?

Reading: Luke 1

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is one of your favorite Christmas traditions or memories from growing up?

  2. How does the story of Christmas (the story that gets us to Christmas) change the importance of the Christmas story?

  3. Why did God send Jesus at the time He did? Why is that important?

  4. How does the story of Christmas make the Christmas story easier to believe?