Advent 2020

Jesus, The Lamb Of God

John 1:29–34

Photo by Walter Chávez on Unsplash

Growing up in the church, I have memories of replaying the narrative of the birth of Jesus over and over again. Every Christmas eve, we had a service that would have the Sunday School kids recite lines from the Bible and play out the nativity.

While I look back on those times with some fondness, I never really understood what it…