How could a person reject such awesome love that is offered by the Creator of the universe? The scriptures plainly say that the message of Christmas divides humanity. Either we believe or we don’t. But I often wonder what is involved with the quality of belief identified by John 3:16. Is the message of Christmas being communicated clearly to a noisy world that is divided on a long list of issues? So many consider Christmas message much like Santa Claus as a cultural tradition? How can we be observe this round if celebrations with a message of love, hope and faith? Will our cake rations with family and friends be an intense worship and devotion to the King of kings?
“No priest, no theologian stood at the manger of Bethlehem. And yet all Christian theology has its origin in the wonder of all wonders: that God became human. Holy theology arises from knees bent before the mystery of the divine child in the stable. Without the holy night, there is no theology. “God is revealed in flesh,” the God-human Jesus Christ — that is the holy mystery that theology came into being to protect and preserve. If Christmas time cannot ignite within us again something a love for the wonder of the manger, the son of God, the mysteries of God, then it must be that the glow of the divine mysteries has also been extinguished in our heart and has died out.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
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