Sermon Tone Analysis

WE EXIST TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW JESUS

YOU WERE THAT PURPOSE (CHRISTMAS MESSAGE)

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS THING?

Maybe it’s the presents — lights on houses — cookies — The movies! — For me its the CHRISTMAS TREE

There’s a lot of debate about WHEN you put up the tree — BUT THAT TREE MEANS SO MUCH MORE THAN A PLACE FOR YOU TO PUT YOUR PRESENTS UNDER

FIRST CHRISTMAS TREES — 16th Century Christians in Germany — PARADISE TREE — Garden of Eden — This time when things were as God intended — Perfect — Close relationship with God — MARTIN LUTHER credited with putting candles on the tree — FIRST LIGHTS

FIRST TREE BROUGHT DEATH — SEPARATION FROM GOD

BUT THERE IS ANOTHER TREE MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE — We don’t just celebrate that Jesus was born but what He was born to do

The first separated us from God but the second tree restored that relationship — REMEMBER YOU WERE THE PURPOSE FOR JESUS COMING — FOR HIM DYING — So that our relationship with God could be restored — WHEN WE SEE THAT TREE WE REMEMBER NOT JUST THAT JESUS CAME BUT WHAT HE CAME FOR

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