Message Outline
MESSAGE OUTLINE

• Hope uses EXPERIENCE to bring the EXPECTATION of promise

• To have NO HOPE, is to be without GOD

• FALSE HOPE seems to be SUFFICIENT until it is TESTED

• TRUE HOPE can only be found in CHRIST

Discussion Questions
SCRIPTURE:
1. What do people with no hope look like?
2. Why is false hope so dangerous?
3. How are we presently in a season of waiting on Christ?

PRAYERFULNESS:
4. How can you pray to improve your answer as to why there is hope in you?

LOVING:
5. How is love the cause of our hope?

WORSHIP:
6. How does worship fit into our hope in Christ?

Samuel Smiles: “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”

J.I. Packer: “The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.”