GREETINGS GENERATIVE PEOPLE OF CHRIST THE KING,

From generation to generation, we tell the story that God dwells with us. What captivates us about this story? Why is it so important? What does it tell us about God?

Over the years generations have been telling this story, bringing their own flare and imaginations. We enjoyed our kid’s proclamation through bedtime stories and lullabies which if you missed you can still view on Christ the King YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jk23xlxDlc

The program was beautiful and our kids did a wonderful job of telling the story and incorporating our little church family traditions of "repeat after me" style of praying together. We made the story our story. Claimed it for us, weaving it into our community.

Think about some of our favorite Christmas movies or stories and how themes of God’s story get woven into the fabric of the story. In Charles Schultz’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, it is when Linus drops his security blanket while reciting Luke 2 at the point of “fear not”. We drop our symbolic security blankets when we trust the good news of Jesus Christ in our own stories.

Or "A Christmas Carol" where scary and frightening messengers of past, present and future transform Scrooge pulling away his grip on things so that he can celebrate the relationships in front of him. We too when we look back at past generations and forward to future generations can live more fully with the generations we find ourselves in seeing God’s presence.

Or the Grinch and little Cindy Lu find the stolen Christmas not in things but again in relationships and song. We come together in worship of the God who comes to us and dwells with us and we see that in each other and we sing and hear God’s word and see the light of Christ reflected in each other and our stories.

If we didn’t tell this story, what would become of our faith? Discover your place in God’s story. Tell your family and friends. We are woven together in God’s beautiful creation. Merry Christmas!

Bold Inquisitive Belief Loving Expansively,

Pastor Connie Spitzack