This Christmas is kind of weird! Thanksgiving is so late that it lands on the first Sunday of Advent. It felt strange to preach at Grace Point today on a topic unrelated to the worship songs. The worship was great, but the songs were traditional Christmas songs, while the series was on dealing with conflict. Please don't get me wrong - there was nothing wrong with the service, and I am not suggesting that anything should change. It just felt strange for me to be singing Christmas carols while preparing to speak about living as a body.
In fact I gained some new appreciation for the old standard Christmas songs as stand alone worship songs. It was great to see the bedrock of unity within songs like "O Come All Ye Faithful" and the rapture of worshiping the Great Yahweh in "In Excelsis Deo". So, it was not a bad service, actually it was quite good, just strange.
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