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    Incarnation Leader Guide: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas
    Incarnation Leader Guide: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas
    Incarnation Leader Guide: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas
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    Incarnation Leader Guide: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas

    By Adam Hamilton

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    His parents gave him the name Jesus. But the prophets, the shepherds, the wise men, and angels addressed him by other names. They called him Lord, Messiah, Savior, Emmanuel, Light of the World, and Word Made Flesh.


    In Incarnation, best-selling author Adam Hamilton explores the meaning of these titles and what they tell us about the child whose birth we celebrate at Christmas. Join him and reflect upon the significance of the Christ-child for our lives and world today!

    Chapter topics include:


    The Royal Titles: Lord and Messiah

    The Deliverer’s Title: Savior

    The Incarnate Title: Emmanuel

    The Light of the World

    Epilogue: The Word Made Flesh



    The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the four-week study including session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781791005580
    Incarnation Leader Guide: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas
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    Adam Hamilton

    Adam Hamilton is the founding pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City. Started in 1990 with four people, the church has grown to become the largest United Methodist Church in the United States with over 18,000 members. The church is well known for connecting with agnostics, skeptics, and spiritual seekers. In 2012, it was recognized as the most influential mainline church in America, and Hamilton was asked by the White House to deliver the sermon at the Obama inaugural prayer service. Hamilton, whose theological training includes an undergraduate degree from Oral Roberts University and a graduate degree from Southern Methodist University where he was honored for his work in social ethics, is the author of nineteen books. He has been married to his wife, LaVon, for thirty-one years and has two adult daughters.

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      Incarnation Leader Guide - Adam Hamilton

      INTRODUCTION

      In Incarnation, the Reverend Adam Hamilton explores seven titles for Jesus used in the New Testament stories of Jesus’s birth.

      Christians hear and use most of these titles for Jesus throughout the year. But by considering these names and images specifically in the context of Jesus’s Nativity, Hamilton demonstrates the extent to which the Christmas story, familiar both to believers and to the culture at large, truly is the Gospel story. These titles help us move beyond simplified, sentimental understandings of the story to recognize, celebrate, and act upon its deep truths about who Jesus is and what his coming means.

      This Leader Guide is designed to help you guide your small group through a four-session study of Incarnation. It offers opportunities to review and reflect on the main points and themes of Hamilton’s book, and you will gain the most from it if group members have read or are reading Incarnation. The sessions contain quotes from Hamilton’s book as discussion prompts and are organized around key scripture passages from the book.

      Each session corresponds to one chapter from Incarnation, although the fourth session also includes material from the book’s Epilogue:

      •Session 1: Presidents and Kings: In this session, participants will explore what Jesus’s first followers meant when they called him King and Messiah, and how calling Jesus King can help us grow in faith and obedience today.

      •Session 2: The Savior and Our Need for Saving: In this session, participants will reflect on the literal meaning of Jesus’s name and consider how Jesus has saved us, is saving us, and will save us.

      •Session 3: Emmanuel in the Midst of a Pandemic: In this session, participants will explore how the message of Emmanuel was one of hope in both the Old and New Testaments, and how it can still be a message of hope in times of sadness, doubt, and fear today.

      •Session 4: Light of the World, Word of God, and Lord: In this session, participants will discover how Christmas is both a celebration of God’s response to darkness and God’s call for us to respond as well.

      Each session in this Leader’s Guide contains the following parts:

      •Session Objectives: Keep these in mind, along with your group’s interests and personalities, as you choose from the questions and activities provided to plan your session.

      •Biblical Foundations: Key Old and New Testament texts, in the New Revised Standard Version, on which the material in each session is based.

      •Sample Session Plan: Each session contains needed preparatory steps to take, suggested opening icebreakers and activities, questions for discussing Incarnation and the companion DVD, closing activities, and optional extensions, as well as an opening and a closing prayer. You likely won’t be able to use all the material provided, so choose the questions and activities you think fit your group best.

      To help your group study of Incarnation succeed, you will want to do the following:

      •Promote your study within and beyond your congregation well in advance, especially if you will be using it during what tends to be the busy Advent season.

      •Secure a comfortable and inviting meeting space, physically accessible to all participants. Ideally, participants will be seated in a circle so everyone can see one another. Movable chairs will help facilitate the formation of pairs or small groups, suggested in several sessions. (See the notes on pages 10–11 on virtual

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