Here are some sending words for Christmas worship, written by Darren and posted on his Planet Telex blog.
Final Blessing
We have celebrated the news of the angels with music and dance,
We have followed the journey of faith of the eastern astrologers
and rejected the superficiality of the commercial Christmas,
We have remembered the poor and the broken
for whom the commercial Christmas is not good news,
We have paid homage to the baby Jesus,
who came to be good news to the poor
and a stumbling block to the self-sufficient and powerful,
We have remembered that the cradle led to the cross;
and by partaking in bread and wine
we have nailed our colours to the mast
as followers of the Way of Jesus
along with his followers from every age and every place.
Let us go in to supper
and then to continue to live out his love, his way, in the world. Amen
— from planet telex: musings of a youth worker, practitioner and armchair theologian downunder.
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