December 3, 2023
Jon Schock

The Cry of Christmas

2 Corinthians 8:9

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1. What is your earliest Christmas memory?
   

2. What are the things that pull negatively at you the most this time of year? Distraction? Materialism? Dissatisfaction?
   

3. Read 2 Corinthians 8:9. How is this a Christmas verse? How does it speak to the things that pull at us this time year?
   

4. How does our culture silence the Cry of Christmas? How would you explain that Cry to someone else?
   

5. Why do you think God created, when He was complete from eternity past?
   

6. Discuss the Hebrew idea of shalom. How does that help us understand creation?
   

7. Read Genesis 3. What strikes you about this chapter? Is there something you hadn’t noticed before?
   

8. Discuss this quote: “Satan’s true masterpiece is the Pharisee, not the Prostitute.” Agree or disagree? What effect does sin have on us?
   

9. Discuss Genesis 3:15. Some theologians call this the first instance of the gospel. Do you see other places in this chapter?
   

10. Where do you see the grace of God and the Cry of Christmas in Genesis 3?