Gene Higgins opens the meeting by reading from Luke 2 and compares the glad, global and gracious tidings that the angels presented to shepherds and compares them with the tidings of the gospel. James Cartwright follows on by preaching from the most well-known gospel verse – John 3:16. He brings out 3 everlasting truths presented in the text; the everlasting God, the everlasting gift and the everlasting gap.