Springfield Methodist Group

We will be suspending posts on this page. We hope that we can come together again at some time. The church is closed for worship and the Bluegrass district is maintaining membership records. We will continue to pray for each of you, Springfield, Washington County and the United Methodist Church.

Our closing service will be Thursday December 29th 6 pm.

"When he [King Herod] had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born." Matthew 2:4

"Christ” is the Greek translation of the Hebrew term Messiah, which means “the Anointed One.”3 In Old Testament times, anointing signified being set aside for service, particularly as a king or priest. Jesus came not as an anointed one but as the Anointed One, both King and Priest, set apart not by any man but by God Himself.

Messiah means the long-awaited God-anointed Ruler, who would overcome all other rule, and bring in the end of history, and establish the kingdom of God and never die or lose his reign.

Jesus didn't meet anyone's expectations...he came as a baby in a manger. He didn't come with an army to crush Rome and free the Jews from oppression. He was even rejected by his own people.

"Jesus was God’s answer to Israel’s prayers; He was the Messiah, but they rejected Him. “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:11–12). So gratefully we celebrate Him as the Christ, the Anointed One not just for Israel, but for all humankind who believe in Him."

We are so blessed to celebrate the Messiah's birth and his resurrection. How have honored and worshipped Christ, the Messiah, today? How do you set Christ above the busyness of the season?

For further reflection: Job 19:25; Daniel 9:25; Matthew 2:4; 16:16; Luke 9:20; John 1:41

From the Advent study "Unwrapping the Names of Jesus" by Asheritah Ciuciu