Message: Philippians 2:5-11 “Like Us”
God
loves humanity so much that He becomes like us. This is the amazing gift God
offers to the world, revealed through Christ and the Christian faith. When we
celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating how God demonstrated His amazing love
and became human in order to save humanity from itself. The other side of this
truth is captured well by St. Athanasius in the 4th century AD
when he declared that “God became like us so that we might become like Him.”
Christmas is the celebration of Christ coming into the world as one of us. The
name “Christian” means ‘little Christs.’ Our goal as followers of Jesus is to
become more like Jesus, not in power, but in character.
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