Why Do Christians Care So A lot About Christmas?

How God Saved Humanity

Christians care about Christmas as a result of it marks the start of the gospel, the start of the excellent news of Jesus Christ. If you concentrate on how the Gospel writers introduce their Gospels—Matthew, Luke, John—all of them introduce it with a reference to the incarnation and the start and the nativity of Christ. In order that’s why it’s necessary to Christians.

Jonathan Gibson

For people and households, this 40-day liturgical devotional guides readers by way of Creation, Christmas, and Epiphany—serving to Christians retain their deal with Jesus and meditate on the thriller of his incarnation.

Maybe I may put it like this: the cross and the resurrection would by no means have occurred had there not been the incarnation of the Son of God. And so it’s foundational to the gospel message. With out the incarnation, there wouldn’t have been redemption, resurrection, or ascension. With out the incarnation of Christ, there wouldn’t have been the redemption that he gained for us on the cross, his resurrection, or his ascension.

God the Son needed to change into one among us with a view to save us. Gregory of Nazianzus stated one thing like, “God can not save what he doesn’t assume.” With a view to save people, he needed to assume a human nature. And in order that’s why Christmas is foundational and the that means behind every part regarding the gospel.

Jonathan Gibson is the creator of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Every day Worship from Creation to Epiphany.

Jonathan Gibson

Jonathan Gibson (PhD, College of Cambridge) is an ordained minister within the Worldwide Presbyterian Church, United Kingdom, and affiliate professor of Outdated Testomony at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He’s a coeditor of and contributor to From Heaven He Got here and Sought Her and creator of Be Thou My Imaginative and prescient: A Liturgy for Every day Worship. Jonny and his spouse, Jackie, have 4 kids.