We know what time of the year it is, and all that comes with it. Shopping, cooking, wrapping, prepping and celebrating in Pinterest-presented perfection. Glitz, glam, velvet, fur, snow boots, flannels, whatever your style - real trees, fake trees, no trees, lights, extraordinary lights, no lights but a single candle? None of that matters, but the season to celebrate the birth of Christ matters most.
Grapeville Christian School will be presenting its Christmas concert to the community:
Date: Friday, December 16
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Gospel Community
121 Mansion Street
Coxsackie, NY 12051
Our students have practiced long and hard to bless us with music, Christmas carols, hymns, and readings. Coming together to worship and adore our Savior is a blessing, a privilege, and a scriptural command.
Hebrews 10:24-25 "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near."
I was shopping in a local store recently, and the cashier had Christian music playing. Interested, my husband asked her what church she attends. Politely, she remarked how she supports her husband in his churchgoing but didn't believe she needed to go and sing with people to be close to God. I imagine there is more to her story, but sadly, this woman believed her justification.
PRIDE INCREASES OUR PERSONAL PREFERENCES OVER BIBLICAL ETHICS; AND OH, HOW WE SEE SO LITTLE BY OURSELVES.
Tim Keller writes, quoting C. S. Lewis,
"By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see the facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived...Knowing the Lord is communal and cumulative, we must pray and praise together." That way "the more we share the heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall have." (Prayer, 119)
Being a Christian means to be united in Christ, and union with Christ expresses itself in union with his body.
Come and join us this Christmas season for our school concert. You can pray and worship in solitude, but the Lord does indeed "inhabit the praises of his people." Together, let us bow in humble submission to the Kings of Kings and worship His name on high.
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