It Runs in the Family

ADVENT: CHRISTMAS JOY TO THE WORLD! In the age of Instagram and Facebook, we can tend to edit information about ourselves to make things look better than they might in reality. We can hide the skeletons in the closet, the moments of embarrassment and failure and slap up a smiling picture of ourselves. In Jesus’ time, people tended to do the same with their family trees – leave out the people who didn’t bring honour to the family name. Yet when we read the list of people in Jesus’ family tree, even those with messiest stories are included. Why? What does that have to tell us about Jesus? And as we approach Christmas, what might it reveal about Jesus ultimate purpose in our world? We hope you can join us this Sunday as we explore these questions.