Christmas for the Culture of NOW…

We belong to the culture of NOW…

The instant gratification culture.

We have everything we need without ever having to wait for it.

Some might say we’re a culture who doesn’t know how to wait.

But thousands and thousands of years ago, a culture waited for one day they knew would change EVERYTHING.

They longed

They hoped

They anticipated

Emmanuel: God with us…

It was something generations waited their entire lives for, many wondering if they’d ever get a chance to see it with their own eyes.

Heaven colliding with earth

Magnificence embracing disorder

Divinity invading humanity

This season, we, the culture of NOW, have a chance to practice and gather others into something that’s become completely foreign to us… a practice that beckons explanation and swims against the current of the commercial holiday season.

This season we begin to wait, to long, to anticipate something bigger than ourselves…

Emmanuel.

God        with        us.