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Misread | The Christmas Story, Part 1
Posted 3 months ago - Apr 30, 2024
From: Admin UserChristmas is now 2 weeks(!) away, so I thought it would be good to look at some things we frequently miss in the Christmas story. Don’t worry, I won’t ruin “Mary, Did You Know?” for you (spoiler: yeah, she knew–mostly).
Before we get started, let me assure you that my aim is not to ruin the Christmas story. No, I’m hoping to do the opposite and help us all to be even more amazed at the incarnation–the act of Jesus, the Son of God, taking on humanity so that we can be saved. In fact, if you keep reading you’ll see that we get ALL of the important parts of the story right. That’s a good thing! I’m hoping to just smooth the edges a little bit. It’s good to get these facts as right as we can, because if we are clear about the little things it helps us to be clear about the big ones! We should always strive for truth, in the trivial AND the important.
With that in mind, I don’t know of any better place to start than our beloved nativity scene. Most of our experience with nativity scenes falls into one of two categories.
- Two T-Rexes fighting over a table saw
- Or some form of this: