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Christmas is the Christian’s gift to others

Paul at Prodigal Kiwi has posted about his reflection on the movie Osama. In his reflection, Paul quotes Archbishop Rowan William’s and I thought I would post it here as well. It has made it into my Christmas day reflection for our morning service at Northern.

“Christmas is the Christian’s Christmas present to everybody else.

Christmas, for a Christian tells us why people matter. They matter because God took us seriously, seriously enough to get involved with our lives to suffer with us and change things. That’s what I believe, that’s what Christians believe and Christmas exists because of that belief. You may or may not believe that; you may think people matter for other reasons, but never mind; that’s what we’re saying and that’s our present, that’s our gift to the rest of the world…” (1st December 2005).

Thanks Paul.

And now to put flesh on those words in 2006!

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One Response to “Christmas is the Christian’s gift to others”

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    Paul Fromont Says:
    December 21st, 2005 at 3:36 am

    You’re very welcome Phil.