“I went into church and sat on the velvet pew. I watched as the sun came shining through the stained glass windows. The minister dressed in a velvet robe opened the golden gilded Bible, marked it with a silk bookmark and said, “If any man will be my disciple, said Jesus, let him deny himself, take up his cross, sell what he has, give it to the poor, and follow me.”

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
"And I looked around and nobody was laughing"

Christmas Eve is a great time for the Church to remember that God didn't need wealth or power to save the world, but it is through the giving away and emptying of wealth and power that salvation arrives.  How helpless and foolish to the world it must seem.

It is also a good time for us to repent of following the ways of the world rather than the Way of Christ.

(HT to Jim West on the Kierkegaard quote)

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