Christmas pageants, good & bad

[DeanZF]

<QUOTE author="HelenaZF,Oct 13 2006, 08:52 PM">

Personally I don't like it when the christmas pageantry includes the passion/resurrection message. It's just so emotionally wrenching to me to have to relive the passion when I've come to an event that I thought was going to be a celebration of the nativity.

Yep, she's my wife, and we don't always agree, but I'm with her on this one.



I enjoy subtle. Do you? For me, viewing the normal depiction of the Bethlehem star as a four pointed cross is plenty suggestive enough. The symbolism of that star is that He came to reach the four corners of the earth. I know that. That can be enough to launch a great little altar call, and to bring the cross into the mix. "He came not just to live as a man among men, fully God, yet fully man, He came to die as a sacrifice for my sin--and yours. Will you allow His sacrifice to cover your sins that you might live as Christ among men?"



Subtle, succinct, sufficient, IMO. But then, I'm not usually invited to give the altar calls...