Christmas preachers feel, I think, a struggle to have some kind of new way in or fresh angle. When we deal with similar themes and passages year after year, how will we be engaging and what are we going to do in the four or five new all age services we need each year?
More important, of course, to concentrate on proclaiming the central truths of Christmas: the Word made flesh, the birth of the Saviour, the long-promised rescuer-king.
And to pray for grace to do so in a way that is transparently sincere, to be moved again by these great foundational truths oneself. We want not merely to tick off the talks (great, I’ve got an idea, I’m prepared, that one’s done) but to speak to all who will listen of what matters most to us.
We may want some of our services, at least, to feel fun and happy, but we want the cosmic seriousness, the mystery, the mind-blowing world-remaking New Creation of this central fact of history to shine through too. More than entertaining or amusing, we want our hearers to check out this thing which has happened which we have been told about and to go home glorifying and praising God.
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