Behold Believe | The Mysteries of Advent Series

ad·vent means arrival.

During the Christmas season, followers of Jesus rehearse the arrival of Jesus through his birth in Bethlehem. This year, New City celebrates Advent through the series: Behold & Believe, The Mysteries of Advent.

The series is captured in this quote:

“The parts of the Christian story that had drawn me into the Church were not the believe parts, but the beholding parts…Whether the narratives starred hayseed shepherds confronted by hosts of glittering angels or desert pilgrims watching something like a dove descend upon a man in a river as a voice from heaven called him “Beloved”, Christian faith seemed to depend on beholding things that were clearly beyond belief…While I understood both why and how the early church decided to wrap those mysteries in protective layers of orthodox belief, the beliefs never seized my heart the way the mysteries did.”

—Barbara Brown Taylor

SERIES SCHEDULE:

12/1 – BEHOLD, IMMANUEL. Matthew 1:18-25.

12/8 – BEHOLD THE VIRGIN, BEHOLD THE SON. Luke 1:26-38.

12/15 – BEHOLD, SALVATION & JUDGMENT. Luke 2:22-38.

12/22 – BEHOLD, A STAR & A KING. Matthew 2:1-12.

12/24 – Christmas Eve - BEHOLD, GOOD NEWS. Luke 2:1-20.

12/29 – BEHOLD, THE BELOVED SON. Matthew 3:13-17.

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