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The season is upon us
Black Friday is past
Cyber Monday is upon us
The holiday Christmas music has started, the credit cards are being warmed up, and the Christmas list are growing and the season of want is here
Our culture and society has succumbed to the almighty dollar, and the theology of the one with the most toys wins.
The US retail industry generated over 3.14 trillion dollars during the 2014 Christmas season.
It has nearly doubled in less than 10 years
Christmas is no longer known as Christmas, it is now known as Winter holidays
Santa Clause is the main character, led by his 8 reindeer, and his community of Christmas elves.
It is more about the magic of materialism than it is about the Son of God invading our world bringing the light of hope and peace to a world wondering around in darkness
We look around our houses filled with toys, games, and other items, some still in their packages from last years Christmas
The newest gadget, phone, or piece of technology is no longer good enough, we must have something more, something new, something uptodate
We have lost focus as a society
I am not saying that we should do away with the Christmas trees, the presents, or the food
But what I am saying is that we have lost focus of why and what we celebrate this time of year
We are doing something a bit different this year, we are not following the typical advent story
As a chapel I want us to take back to that which are culture and our world has hijacked from us, I want us to take back Christmas
Reclaim it again and make it what it was truly meant to be
I want us to conspire together, spend the next 4 weeks reclaiming this season back
The Advent conspiracy
Where we conspire to take back that which was holy
The word Conspire means “to act in harmony toward a common end.”
To conspire against the norm of our culture, and lean forward towards the good news of Christ’s coming
To redirect our hearts not only as individuals, but as families, as believers, to the coming of the prince of peace, the horn of our salvation, the hope of eternity.
OVer the next four weeks we will conspire together to
Worship Fully
Spend less
give more
love all
this morning we will spend a little time exploring what does it mean to worship fully
Pray with me!
The need for a right view of Christmas
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From the very onset of the Christmas story, it was always about Christ, the babe who came to die
It is about worshiping Christ as the Son of God, the one who is able to take away the sins of the world
Every year at this time worship begins, the worship of stuff and materialism
And yet Christ, the one who provides true happiness, who is able to fill our empty hearts and satisfy the souls of humanity is lost in the midst of almighty throne of stuff
And yet as believers in Christ Jesus, this is the season where we celebrate the coming of life, not just any life, but the one who brings abundant life, eternal life
It is Christ that we celebrate, it is Christ that we must worship, it is truly the reason for this season
The more we focus upon the gospel, the good news, the more our hearts will be turned to worshipping him
When we understand that from the beginning of time, from the very onset of sin, God set his plan into motion, the plan of redemption
What is redemption?
The purchasing of someone out of situation in which the one is unable to provide on their own.
Meaning you are unable to do for yourself, there is nothing you are able to do or say, that will bring you out of your current situation/
In terms of sin, the only redemption able to bring us out of our sinful state, happened over two thousand years ago, when the Son of God came into this world as a baby
The coming of Christ
The awesomeness of God
But this was only a fulfillment of what was proclaimed to Mary and Joseph
IT was the message given to the angel sent by God to Mary and Joseph, both received a message, both were told about the Son they would have and the mission he would accomplish on this earth
The ultimate message that “God is with us and He would take away the sins of the world”
God would come down in human form, and dwell among us, he would come in form where we could see, touch, and experience God in a whole new way
He would not only dwell among us, he would be the one who would take away our sins
Not merely cover our sin, but wipe them away once and for all
he would bring us into a right relationship with him
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