What’s Your Christmas Strategy? | How to Get The Most Out of Your Christmas Season (Christmas with the Kranks)
What’s Your Christmas Strategy? | How to Get The Most Out of Your Christmas Season (Christmas with the Kranks)
Have you ever regifted a present or returned a present you didn’t like for store credit? Why or why not?
What stood out to you most from the message?
Are you someone who likes to people please, take charge, or somewhere in between?
Why do you think we can hold onto our traditions so tightly?
Where do you think you are this year: Will you try to “make it magical,” “block it out,” or “lock it in” during the holidays? Why is that?
When was the last time you showed grace to someone? What did it look like? How did it feel?
Read Luke 2:8-14 and Titus 2:11.
How can you give grace this Christmas season?
What’s one step you can take this week to show others that grace of Jesus this Christmas?
Let’s end our time praying together. You can say something like;
“Jesus, thank you for coming to this world to bring love, hope, and grace. Please remind us what that grace looks like in our lives, and give us creativity and strength to show it to others–even if they don’t deserve it. Amen.”
What’s Your Christmas Strategy? | How to Get The Most Out of Your Christmas Season (Christmas with the Kranks)
What’s your Christmas season strategy? All of us have one. Maybe you’re trying to wring every bit of cheer out of the holiday like it’s a tube of toothpaste, or maybe you have a schedule so bare it would make the Grinch jealous.
But what if there’s a better way? This week, Alli shows us how strategies we find in the most unlikely of places (like, say, 2004's “Christmas with the Kranks”) points us back to a timeless truth of how to get the most out of this holiday. Recorded live at Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.