Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of God.

I am getting a ton of hits on my blog each day from people looking for Christmas Eve service ideas, so if this is you, then here is what we are doing this year:

We are already working hard on our Christmas Eve service. We had another meeting today to finalize the structure of the service. We are holding the service at a local park and inviting the public. We don’t have a back-up rain plan and I have no clue what to do IF it rains.

Anyway, a group from Dayspring is practicing a play/skit tonight that they will perform on Christmas Eve. We are having a modern Christmas Eve. No mangers, no live farm animals, and no hay bales. Instead, we are having Christmas lights, a Christmas tree, a skit where Mary and Joseph ride a motorcycle instead of donkey. We will certainly share the story of Jesus Christ, but we will put it into a modern day parable. I like to think that Jesus would do the same thing today.

The whole service will be modern and quick paced until the end. At the end of the service, we will slow it down, bring out one lone guitar, light our candles from a Christ Candle and sing silent night with candles raised. It should be a powerful and reflective ending to the beginning of the greatest story ever told.