Sermon
Good News for Not So Good People
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
January 3, 2024 · 37 min
Summary
Luke 2:8-11 reveals Christmas as good news for broken, not-so-good people. God appeared to shepherds—society's outcasts—to announce Jesus's birth, demonstrating that salvation comes through grace, not merit. Jesus came as Savior to rescue sinners, not reward the righteous.
Highlights
Christmas is good news for not-so-good people.
People who were too proud to admit their need opposed Jesus. People who were humble enough to ask for mercy received it every single time.
Jesus wants to come and put you back together and make you more valuable and more stunning and more glorifying to God after your brokenness than before it.