A 4-Week Journey Through the Disruption of Christmas
Christmas isn’t meant to be safe. It’s meant to shatter us open. This series explores how the Incarnation demolishes our carefully constructed expectations, categories, comfort zones, and illusions of self-sufficiency—revealing a God who breaks into our world not to affirm our plans, but to transform them entirely.
WEEK 1: God Breaks Our Expectations
Text: Luke 1:26–38
Mary’s entire life plan is shattered in a single angelic encounter. God breaks “normal” to reveal the eternal, showing us that divine disruption is often the doorway to divine purpose.
Big Themes:
- Disruption as invitation – When God interrupts, He’s inviting us into something greater
- The cost of obedience – Saying “yes” to God means saying “no” to our own blueprints
- Letting go of “normal” – Kingdom life rarely looks like the life we planned
- Divine rearrangement – God doesn’t just adjust our plans; He redesigns them from the ground up
Key Tension: What happens when God’s call collides with our carefully laid plans?
WEEK 2: God Breaks Our Categories
Text: John 1:1–14
The Incarnation destroys every mental box we’ve built for God. The Word becomes flesh, and suddenly all our theological frameworks crack wide open. God refuses to be contained by human logic or religious expectations.
Big Themes:
- Infinite → Infant – The boundless God becomes bounded
- Creator → Creature – The maker enters His own creation
- Holy → Helpless – Divinity wrapped in fragility
- Athanasius Revisited: “He became what we are so that we might become what He is”
Key Tension: How do we worship a God who defies every category we create for Him?
WEEK 3: God Breaks Our Comfort
Text: Matthew 1:18–25; Luke 1:46–55
Christmas dismantles human kingdoms and personal comfort zones. Joseph’s plans collapse. Mary’s reputation hangs in the balance. Herod’s power trembles. God disrupts our comfort not to punish us, but to free us from the prisons we’ve mistaken for security.
Big Themes:
- Joseph’s collapsed plans – Trusting God when life falls apart
- Mary’s shattered reputation – Obedience that costs social capital
- Herod’s crumbling power – The kingdoms of this world versus the Kingdom of God
- Christmas dethrones control – Our illusions of security versus God’s sovereign care
Key Tension: What false securities must we surrender for God’s true peace?
WEEK 4: God Breaks Our Self-Sufficiency
Text: Luke 2; Philippians 2:5–11; Isaiah 9:6–7
Christmas is not polished or sentimental—it’s disruptive grace crashing into human pride. Jesus comes not to the powerful and self-sufficient, but to shepherds, outcasts, and the spiritually desperate. The Kingdom starts small, helpless, and utterly dependent—a mirror showing us what we really are.
Big Themes:
- Pride shattered – God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble
- Control surrendered – The manger teaches us dependence
- Grace enters through cracks – Our brokenness becomes the entry point for God’s power
- Jesus comes to the lowly – God chooses weakness to shame human strength
- Kingdom starts small – Mustard seeds, mangers, and the subversive power of humility
Key Tension: Can we embrace our need for God, or will we cling to the illusion of independence?
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