Luke 1:34

“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

From Background Notes [BN] for Dec 19th & 20th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What does it mean for God to do big things through little people? What happens when those little people turn out to be you and me?

It just doesn’t seem possible, we say, that God would choose to work through us. And yet he does, again and again. In response, our attitude should be gratitude. There are people, however, who take great pride in their own achievements and carry the inflated idea that God is pretty lucky to have them on His team. God, in their eyes, isn’t much of a God, but a sort of prop that gives credibility to their predetermined plans. He gets chosen by them, and not the other way around. Early in his ministry, St. Paul encountered communities of highly cultured individuals that saw themselves as God’s gifts to the world, such as the community in the city of Corinth. Nobody outdid them in wisdom, nobility, and power — or so they thought. Hearing God’s message of grace and forgiveness made them feel uneasy, for the Gospel assumed that all human

beings are lost without God and that the coming of Jesus as Savior meant they needed to admit their dependency on him. Self-reliant people don’t do that easily. [BN,1]

Join us this week in Worship, Praise and Celebration at C1:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:15am
* Family Xperiance (FX) 10am