#5 – Three Wise Men Walk into a Barn

Knowing Faith

Training The Church

Religion & Spirituality, Acts, Christian, Church, Theology, Bible, Bible Study, Romans, Religion, Christianity, Genesis, Discipleship, Trinity, Doctrine, God, Jesus, Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We discuss Matthew’s account of Christ’s birth including several misconceptions of the story, how it relates to the Old Testament, and why the incarnation had to happen.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Knowing Faith, a podcast of Training the Church.
0:04.0	I'm Kyle Whirley, and today I'll be joined by my co-host Jen Wilkin and J.T. English and on today's episode
0:18.5	we're going to talk about the time that three wise men walked into a barn in Bethlehem. Or maybe it wasn't three wise men walked into a barn in Bethlehem or maybe it wasn't three
0:23.9	wise men or maybe they were really maggine they weren't wise men and maybe the
0:27.7	shepherds were there maybe they weren't there and maybe it was on
0:30.3	December 25th or maybe it wasn't on December 25th really what what we're going to be looking at is the
0:35.1	birth narrative of Jesus Christ in Matthew and we'll be looking at Luke and
0:38.6	John as well and pulling that in as source material and what we want to
0:41.8	consider is there are some ways that the
0:44.5	nativity story the narrative around Jesus's birth have maybe been
0:48.2	expanded beyond what the story and scripture actually allows for we've built on things on top of it
0:54.9	where they're actually there or maybe they're different than what we've thought but
0:58.4	when we actually begin to look at the birth narrative that we find in Matthew in Luke.
1:03.5	What we see is something truly profound
1:06.6	that the Lord of all creation, the son of God,
1:09.5	has taken on human flesh and the person of Jesus.
1:13.7	And so I hope that you enjoy the discussion
1:16.0	as we explore the birth narrative of Jesus in the Gospel.
1:28.0	Okay, Jim, single biggest misconception about the birth story of Jesus, go. Kind of hard to narrow it down to one, but I'm going to go with Jesus was born on December 25th.
1:33.8	Of course he was born.
1:35.3	We're going to keep the Christ and Christmas in this room, Jen.
1:38.6	Are you about to tell me that you are a part of this liberal group that wants to take the Christ out of Christmas?
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