The Big Story or the Supremacy of Christ in Christmas

Broadway Baptist Church Maryville Tennessee

What is the “key” to understanding the Bible? Last week we finished our study of the 5 solas of reformation with a look at “solus Christus” or “Christ alone” and we emphasized that Christ is the central figure in the Scriptures. Failing to comprehend the “Christo-centric” nature of the whole Bible causes us to lose sight of the “grand or meta-narrative” of the Scripture. The Bible is the record of the self-revelation of God to the world, therefore, we would expect there to be a plot and direction to the story. Christianity teaches that the self-revelation of God to the world reached a culmination in the Incarnation, when the “Word became flesh”. If so, then the Incarnation would have to be this central interpretive principle of the Bible. The Incarnation of Christ occurred “in the fullness of time or when the set time had fully come” (Galatians 4:4), again suggesting an overarching plan, a meta-narrative. Often at Christmas we are so focused upon the nativity scene filled with shepherds and wise men that we miss the “big story”, God's story! This morning let us rejoice in the “Grand Story” Scripture.