Welcome to our 5-week series, A Classic Christmas. Leading up to Christmas Eve, we will spend our time together in the first two chapters of Luke. This week, we will focus on preparation. Often, when we think of the classic Christmas, we think of waking up, running downstairs, eating treats, and opening up gifts. What we don’t think about, especially as kids, is all the work that happened in advance. Our classic Christmas didn’t happen in a night —but over weeks, months, even years.