1. The other side of Christmas
Livingston United Methodist Church
4th Sunday of Advent (B) or Christmas Eve (B)

3. Mary Her role in story of salvation Movement of story
Gabriel greets + announces
Mary asks how?
Gabriel
Power of Holy Spirit will come upon you
Mary
I belong to the Lord. Let it happen.

4. Her story is our story God is central
Jesus as (1) savior and (2a) model
Mary as (2b) model

5. Movement of story Grace What God does that we cannot Does not say why
I am with labor pains until Christ is formed in you
Eternal nativity
Response
Here I am the slave of the Lord.
Freedom to cooperate with God
Makes herself available to presence + power of God

6. We are Mary Her story -> our story Who? Me???
Nothing will be impossible with the Lord.
How we make ourselves available to the Holy Spirit
Here we are the servants of the Lord. Let is happen according to his word.