"God’s workings" Tagged Sermons

"God’s workings" Tagged Sermons

12/24/2018 Christmas Eve – Making Sense of the Census

The first seven verses of the birth narrative of Jesus are dominated not by the birth but the census. That is not to say that the birth is not the main thing and the climax of these verses. But the census plays an important part in telling the story of Jesus’ birth. What is Luke saying by giving the census such a prominent place? How do we make sense of the census?