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Thank you for engaging with
the homily by Pastor Chill Will from

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Chapel Hill.

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I hope this message encourages
you, challenges you and moves you

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to go deeper in your faith and
enrich how you love God and love

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your neighbor in your day to
day life.

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Just a reminder.

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Like the Scriptures and
Gospels themselves, this homily was

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written for a particular
community in a particular, particular

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context, time in history.

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And yet, like our sacred
texts, I hope that these words hold

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timeless truths about God's
unconditional love and grace.

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We hope these words speak to
you in a meaningful way.

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Merry Christmas.

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Good to see all of you here at
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and

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Lutheran Campus Ministry on
this holy night.

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Here and those gathered online
just I'm Pastor Will.

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I wish you a very very Merry Christmas.

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Gospel comes to us in our
midst from the Gospel of St. Luke.

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Glory to you O Lord.

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In those days a decree went
out from Caesar Augustus that all

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the world should be registered.

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This was the first
registration that was taken while

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Cornerius was governor of of Syria.

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All went to their own towns to
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Joseph also went from the town
of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea to

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the city of David called
Bethlehem because he was descended

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from the house and family of David.

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He went to be registered with
Mary, to whom he was engaged and

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who was expecting a child.

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While they were there, the
time came for her to deliver her

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child.

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She gave birth to her
firstborn son and wrapped him in

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bands of cloth and laid him in
a manger because there was no place

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in the guest room.

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Now in that same region there
were shepherds living in the fields

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keeping watch over their flock
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Then the angel of the Lord
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the Lord shone around them and
they were terrified.

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The angel said to them, do not
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See I am bringing you good
news of great joy for all the people.

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For you is born this day in
the city of David a Savior who is

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the Messiah, the Lord.

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This will be a sign for you
that you will find a child wrapped

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in bands of cloth and lying in
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And suddenly there with the
angel, a multitude of the heavenly

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host praising God, saying
glory to God in the highest heaven

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on on earth, peace among those
who God favors.

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When the angels had left them
and gone into heaven, the shepherd

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said to one another, let us go
now to Bethlehem and see this thing

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that has taken place which the
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So they went with haste and
found Mary and Joseph and the child

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lying in the manger.

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When they saw this, they made
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this child.

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And all who heard it were
amazed what the shepherds told them.

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Mary treasured all these words
and pondered them in her heart.

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The shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God for all

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they had heard and seen, just
as it had been told them the gospel

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of the Lord, the name of the
Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.

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The first message and
proclamation from Christians was,

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christ is risen.

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But before anyone would say
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Alleluia.

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People, rightfully so, had questions.

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Okay, slow up.

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This is unbelievable news.

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Who is this Christ you speak of?

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And if he rose from the dead,
how did he die?

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Well, we're talking about a
rabbi named Jesus of Nazareth, and

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he was killed by the
authorities on a Roman cross.

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Okay, we of course, have more questions.

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What did he do to get himself killed?

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Well, he taught that the
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He spoke truth to power.

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Not only did he preach and
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and revealed God's love for
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but with action and with miracles.

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And he also hung out with a
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the marginalized, and those
perhaps who had contagious diseases.

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And he literally fed those who
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When people and his followers
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those in power with authority
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Ah, gotcha.

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We're starting to see what
kind of Christ this guy was and what

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got him into trouble.

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But what about his family?

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Where was he from?

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What's his origin story?

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Great question.

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Let me tell you the story of Christmas.

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All four gospels in the Bible,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John share

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the story of Jesus, his life,
what kind of ministry he did, and

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what happened to him and his
followers the final week of his life,

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the week we call holy.

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But Matthew and Luke are the
only ones who share Jesus's origin

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story and what we have for our
Christmas story.

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Filling in our nativity set.

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The Gospel of Matthew shares
the Christmas story mainly from Joseph's

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point of view.

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And Matthew is the only Gospel
that shares the magi story.

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The Gospel of Luke is the only
Gospel that shares the Christmas

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story we heard read tonight.

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It holds Mary's point of view,
and it's the one with the shepherds

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in the field and the
surprising, terrifying angelic messenger.

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While all four gospels share
the story of Holy Week, and only

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two share the Christmas stories.

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With all the questions and
curiosities and legitimate skepticism

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that surround Jesus, the
Christmas stories are still important

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stories because they reveal
who Jesus is and why he matters.

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The very nature of the divine.

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In all the stories I love and
consume and geek out on, I love it

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when the creators and the
authors plant clues or Easter eggs

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that point to the bigger
picture of the story that they're

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trying to tell.

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Luke's Christmas story for
sure does just that, with the familiar

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images of a young family
traveling to Bethlehem and shepherds

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in their field, along with the
nostalgia that we bring to this night

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and to the story.

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The Christmas story, like
Jesus does in his own life and the

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way he lived it, subverts
expectations and flips cultural norms

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of power and authority.

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What we imagine when we talk
about God with our complicated and

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unstable world, with the
reality of the fragility of life

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and the complexity of
political struggle and the human

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condition, this is the world
that God chooses to be born into.

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I love that in the Christmas
Story we meet these unnamed shepherds

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who were minding their own
business, doing their daily routine,

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who are already out on the
margins of town and society.

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It's there where God shows up
and breaks it.

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Does God announce the good
news of Christ to the mighty and

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the powerful?

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The rich or the influencer?

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No, rather the divine
messenger show up to those who are

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on the margins, the outcasts,
and to those some consider unclean

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and unworthy.

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Perhaps these shepherds have
spent many nights looking up at the

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stars and many times marveled
at the universe, perhaps asking deep

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existential questions that we
all ask and wrestle with.

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And without any pious action
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This is where God shows up and
gives us a snapshot and confirmation

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of God's solidarity and
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You is born this day in the
city of David, a savior, the Messiah,

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the Lord.

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This will be a sign for you.

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You will find the baby wrapped
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In this baby, in this gift of
Christmas, all of our fears and hopes

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meet.

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Tonight at Christmas, heaven
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divine and all the earthly
dimensions entangle with one another

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not as a supernova or an
explosion or in a palace or a golden

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ballroom, but with the birth
of a vulnerable baby who isn't even

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provided a guest room.

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Now, did you notice the change
in our Christmas story from Luke

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this evening?

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Which reminds me of a little joke.

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How many Lutherans does it
take to change a light bulb?

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Change?

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Oh, no.

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Not only for Lutherans, but
for everyone, change is hard.

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When I read the new Revised
Standard Version, updated edition

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of the translation of the
Bible with a Christmas story, and

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I read that they had changed
the word no room in the inn to guest

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room.

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I was like, oh gosh, here we go.

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The message boards are going
to blow up, the world's going to

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freak out, and yet I bring
this change to light this evening.

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Not to dismantle your nativity
scene or ruin your childhoods, but

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perhaps this small change
shift in clarification can help us

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look at this story in a fresh way.

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Now, I'm not going to get in
the weeds too much with this, but

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the new Revised Standard
Version of the Bible that we use

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here at Holy Trinity and a
part of the ELCA just published an

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updated edition.

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So we now have the NRSVUE to
help enhance readability and comprehension

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of the Bible while still
remaining faithful to the original

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Greek manuscript.

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Like all things and with life
itself, modern language is in a constant

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state of evolution and how we
translate the Bible would be the

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same.

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The update edition looked at
the Greek word for in which is nataluma

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and saw that a better
translation would be guest room.

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The word kataluma is only used
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In Luke when he's sharing that
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place to have this baby.

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And in Mark and Luke when
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to find a place to have his
last supper, the Passover meal before

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he is crucified.

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The place where Jesus takes
bread and wine and says this is my

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body, this is my blood shed
for you.

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I love this Easter egg of a
Christmas gift.

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Luke connects the place of
Jesus's birth and being placed in

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a manger to the meal.

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We connect the Holy Communion
in Mary and Joseph's day.

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Each house and living quarters
were not laid out like our homes

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with a living room and a
separate master bedroom and other

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separate guest rooms.

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Everyone slept in the same room.

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There was not really any privacy.

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Some homes had an upper room
or a guest room carved out for guests

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or just to have as an extra
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birth.

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Our story shares that there
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Bethlehem had lots of people
around and Joseph's relative's home

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was most likely full of people
not making Mary climb a ladder or

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stairs to an upper room while
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Perhaps the most private place
for a woman to give birth was off

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to the side near where the
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So this part of the story may
not be about a cold hearted innkeeper

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pushing a young pregnant woman
away to be with animals, but rather

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Mary and Joseph found his
relative's house filled with guests

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who were also there for the
census and couldn't find private

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closed doors to give birth.

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But what they were offered was
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place that housed and fed the
animals that needed to be brought

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indoors.

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You the animal song from our
children's musical Move back, move

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back, said the cows, said the
sheep, said the cows and the sheep.

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In a town named Bethlehem, a
word that literally means house of

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bread, the Christ, the
promised Messiah, was born in the

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lowest place of the house, off
to the side in a place placed in

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a manger, an animal feeding trough.

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Here we see God's nature and
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We we who gather tonight and
huddle around this story are called

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to keep our eyes open and to
pay attention to how Jesus's nature

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and humility plays out in the
rest of his story and how he postures

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himself the rest of his life
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In Bethlehem, this house of
bread, we keep our eyes and hearts

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open and pay attention to the
kind of bread and and meals Jesus

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served and who he invites to
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The common question around
Christmas is often, will you find

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room for Jesus and his family
in the inn?

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But even with this small
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the question doesn't change a
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What about our guest rooms or
the guests that we invite to the

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table?

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What space do we provide for
Christ and for those that he sought

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after and aligned himself with?

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In this very human story,
Christ shows us how to be human.

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You see, the story we huddle
around tonight is just a prequel.

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There's more story to be told,
more story to be shared.

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The Christmas story isn't the
story, but a prelude and a foreshadowing

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of the rest of the story of
who this Jesus is and where God directs

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the divine intention.

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In the rest of the story, the
story of God who stands in solidarity

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and takes to heart our
vulnerability, fragility, fears and

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longing.

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The story of God who continued
to show up on the margins and the

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places we least expect.

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A story of God who flips
tables of injustice and challenges

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us that the first will be last
and the last will be flirt.

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The story of Jesus who
illustrates the nearness of God,

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the heart of God, and the
mystery of faith with lost sheep,

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small plants, small seeds.

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The story of God who washes
feet, dies on the cross, and who

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will not let death have the
final word.

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In our lives and in our world,
Christ is risen.

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Risen indeed.

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All in the I personally don't
know what the new year will bring.

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Most likely there will still
be ups and downs, twists and turns,

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joys and tragedies, similar
routine and yes, indeed, change and

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I'm pretty sure there will be
challenges not if but when and yet

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as a community of faith we
have a pretty good record of meeting

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those challenges.

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Taking our lead from Jesus who
was born, who is risen and who continues

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to be with us wherever we are
in life and faith.

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When we leave here tonight our
world will continue to be terrifying

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and uncertain and yet in all
that uncertainty I am certain that

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this house of faith will
continue to be a house of bread for

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all and we will continue to
share with one another.

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Do not be afraid for to you
Christ was born.

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Christ is risen, is risen indeed.

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Foreign.

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Thank you for listening.

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If there is anything that
stood out for you or if you have

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a question or you just want to
have a conversation, you are always

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free to reach out and contact
us and remember you are not alone

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and that you are loved with a
love stronger than death.

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Sam.