As we approach Christmas, I'd like to post some thoughts about the Christmas story. Let me know what you think...
In the story that Luke tells us I was struck by a few things. The first was that we start with Zechariah and Elizabeth who, like their son, John the Baptist, are an introduction to Jesus. It occurred to me that when Zechariah goes into the Temple to meet God, everybody else is outside the Temple. And when Zechariah meets the Angel of the Lord, something very special happens; in fact it's the beginning of the end. Here, the walls of the Temple start to come down. When the Angel meets Zechariah he is announcing that the separation of 'those out there from us in here' will very shortly end. The baby in the manger will leave open a gateway so that we no longer need special people to meet God for us, but we can meet him ourselves.
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