1. The Christ Candle

2. “While I am in the world, I am the light
John 9:5
“While I am in the world, I am the light
of the world.”

3. Light
Gives
Direction

4. of life; in Your light we see light.”
Psalm
36:9
“For with you is the
fountain
of life; in Your light we see light.”

5. 2 Corinthians 4: 4 & 6
4 “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”

6. Light
Can Be
Unpredictable

7. John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.”

8. Light
Can Be
Temporarily
Painful

9. Matthew 4:16
“The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

10. From that time on Jesus began to preach,
Matthew 4:17
From that time on Jesus began to preach,
“Repent,
for the
Kingdom
of Heaven
is near.”

11. John 3: 19-21 Mankind rejects
The light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because it will require leaving sinful behaviors.

12. Those who spend a long time in darkness grow accustomed to it and learn how to “get by” living that way.

13. - Author H.G. Wells (Atheist)
“In the white blaze of this Kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love…
Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light…
Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?”
- Author H.G. Wells (Atheist)

14. 1 Peter 2:9
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.”

16. Candle-lighting
Instructions