Christmas 2 with John

January 5th 2014 John 1: 10-18

'In the beginning was the Word', proclaims the opening of John's Gospel. Many congregations will be content only to wonder and worship at that fact, and to celebrate the incarnation on Christmas Day, but now the RCL nudges us a little further into John, and the question the Scriptures asks us is 'So what?.'

'So what' is a question some occasional worshippers may not have asked as they left Midnight Mass. The preacher's task today is to both challenge and offer good news by putting that question before people. This might be done by referring to some of John's key words, Light, Grace, Truth, (verses 14, 16, 17) Jesus offers us light to walk by in a dark world, grace in our failure and frailty, and THE truth in a world of many relative but no absolute truths.