During the Christmas Season, as we read the gospel narratives of the nativity, we often begin to wonder about things God has not revealed.  Was there an innkeeper and was he grumpy or compassionate?  Was the start of Bethlehem a real star?  Or was it a comet, Kepler’s conjunction or St. Elmo’s fire?   Were there three wise-men?  Were they kings?

It is not without reason that the Scripture warns us against vain prying and calls us to concentrate on what God has revealed.  Such questions tend to become a distraction and reduce the nativity passages in the New Testament to the level of myth.   As the prophet Micah indicates where Jesus would be born, he points us beyond the question of the place to the nature and purpose of the one who would be born there.   Listen as Pastor Wheeler examines the dangers of asking the “wrong question” when we come to the passages surrounding the incarnation of Christ.

Get the 12-02-12, Bulletin and listen to “The Wrong Question,” Micah 5:1-6.