9:30am - Bible Study facilitated by Ellen Beidler and Bill Lamb using John Dominic Crosson's book The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Birth
"In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Borg and Crossan help us to see this well-known narrative afresh by answering the question, "What do these stories mean?" in the context of both the first century and the twenty-first century. They successfully show that the Christmas story, read in its original context, is far richer and more challenging than people imagine.Christmas."
Please email or call Ellen or Bill if you have questions. Contact Ellen: ebeidler@usa.net, Bill: william.e.lamb@gmail.com.