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Before we step into Bethlehem, I want you to sit with this:

Most of what you’ve been told about this story wasn’t a lie.It was the truth, flattened.

Just like the McDonald’s “hot coffee lady” (a story we all thought we knew, until we learned the truth behind the propaganda.)

Bethlehem is the same.Jesus is the same.Christianity is the same.

A familiar story, stripped of its edges, softened for comfort, and repackaged as obedience.

Today, we go back to the real terrain:

* A colonized homeland.

* An occupied people.

* A political threat sold to us as a Hallmark card.

And what emerges when we unflatten this story…is liberation.

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