Satan wants us to believe that we
are alone. He wants us to think that Christianity
is dying out. In past experience, at a variety
of churches, the services on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning are typically
not well attended. Everyone is busy.
We attend a very large church (huge
for the size of our community). If you
are 5 minutes early (or even 5 minutes late) you can usually find a seat on
Sunday morning. It is full, but there
are seats available. We arrived to
Christmas Eve services this year only 5 minutes before the service was due to
start… No seats… We checked the balcony…
No seats… We finally found a spot for our family of 6 way up in the front of
the church (we could only see that those seats were free when we were looking
in the balcony). Keep in mind there were
still people arriving. It was amazing. That church was packed to standing room only
on a night that most do not bother with church.
Despite what society would have us believe. People do still know the meaning of
Christmas, people do still take time out of a busy schedule to worship. People do love the Lord.
The amount of people was not the only thing that struck
me. The service was beautiful! Pastor Jack wonderfully wove the birth of
Christ in with the message of salvation.
Pointing out that this tiny baby was destined (his purpose for coming at
all) to carry our sin to the cross. The
service was full of the touch of the Holy Spirit. Music and message, a truly uplifting and REAL
experience! Everyone alive in Christ,
together!
