Characters of Christmas – Zechariah & Elizabeth

When we tell the Christmas story we generally start with the story of Jesus and his parents. But, in our lead up to Christmas, we are going to look at the story through the lives of people we typically don’t think of as part of the story. Here in Luke’s gospel, the biblical account of Christmas begins with Jesus’s cousin John, as Luke describes the unusual circumstances leading to John’s birth. So, today we will think about Zechariah and Elizabeth and their part in the Christmas story. They form the link between the revelation of God in the Old Testament and that in the New Testament. When Zechariah is finally able to speak, nothing could hold him back in praise of God and what he had done and was about to do, through his son, John and the coming Saviour. We, too, have the opportunity to share that same good news that Zechariah announce. We get to tell the gospel that brings us to faith and sends us out to witness, as we share the Christmas story.  Passage: Luke 1: 5-25; 57-80Preacher: Jim de WitteSupport the show