The Christmas Story Step into Scripture: A Bible Study for Advent

By Susan K. Boyd

This holiday season step into the Nativity scene through a hole in time and become an active participant in the true Christmas Story!

Join this interactive Bible Study and move close to the events and people surrounding the Advent of Christ. You will have the opportunity to be one of the marginalized shepherds, the concerned citizens of Jerusalem and the mysterious but powerful Magi.

This is not a quiet peek into the manger. The Christmas Story—Step into Scripture, A Bible Study for Advent is an exciting experience watching prophecy unfold in front of you and miracles appear all around you. It is a unique method for understanding and applying scripture. Scripture is the script! The Bible Study is the director but you determine your actions, thoughts, and feelings as:
• A shepherd personally invited by the God of the universe to see his newborn son.
• A Jerusalem citizen, aware that paranoid King Herod could go on one of his killing sprees.
• One of the Internationally, renown Magi. You’re not a king but you are well known as a King Maker!
• You—stepping through another hole in time, forward thirty years, listening to The Good shepherd, and watching Jesus in his ministry; HE is the King of Kings!

Welcome to The Christmas Story—Step into Scripture, A Bible Study for Advent!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781973676935

Susan K. Boyd

Susan K. Boyd MS, LMFT, author of 6 books, is a Bible Teacher, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, and featured speaker. She and Jerry, married over 54 years have a son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.

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Scripture marked (KJV) taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-9736-7692-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-7691-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-7693-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019915762

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/22/2019

To my granddaughter and grandson—I love you! I enjoy watching you accomplish the amazing things you do. Dedicated to the Lord, committed to excellence, and you’re a whole lot of fun. I believe God has big plans for you both.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Lessons:

1. Mary: Messiah’s Mother-To-Be

2. Mary & Elizabeth Celebrate Together

3. Joseph Takes Mary as Wife

4. Jesus, The Savior, Is Born

5. Shepherds: Guests by Divine Invitation

6. The Magi’s Excitement;

King Herod’s Fear

7. God’s Great Escape Plan

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

Notes

PREFACE

I wrote Seder to Sunday—Step into Scripture, A Bible Study for Easter in 2018. It was the first in the Step into Scripture Bible Study Series. I’m very grateful for the feedback shared by individuals and churches that used this study. I am excited people are putting themselves into scenes of Biblical history and applying that experience to their circumstances today. Below you will understand what I hope for the readers of this new study.

The Christmas Story—Step into Scripture is the second Bible Study in this interactive series. Every December, live nativity scenes and pageants draw crowds who stand out in the cold to experience what it might have been like witnessing the advent of Christ. The Christmas Story—Step into