(The video that we showed during the service can be accessed at this location: https://vimeo.com/183781814
Have you ever noticed that Christmas includes a lot of gift giving?
That’s probably a dumb question, but it’s significant that this time of
year is connected with giving. Obviously, giving one another gifts –
often through personal sacrifice – is reflecting the gift God gave us in
His Son Jesus. So somewhere down deep inside we get it: the Christmas
story calls us to a mission. But that mission is not to find the
‘perfect’ gift and wrap it up and put it under the Christmas tree. Are
we spending more time in the trappings of Christmas than in the message
of it? Have we been more careful to make sure our house is decorated
and that our gifts are wrapped than in responding to the call of the
Christmas mission? Let’s take a look at that mission as it first
started on the night Jesus was born.