Why Christmas?

Have you ever wondered why Christians celebrate the birth of a baby? What’s the point? Suppose we accept that it all happened just the way the Bible tells us it did, what’s that to you or me? More importantly, what’s that to God? Seems like a bit of effort to go to…trying to squeeze an infinite and all-powerful being that is beyond the universe into a tiny, weak, new-born baby called Jesus. But that’s what happened. So why?

Before that first Christmas humans were separated from knowing the God of love, light, peace and passion who made them because they’d fallen into some bad habits, living selfish lives and not valuing each other. The Bible calls this sin. But God still loved the people he had made, and his heart ached for a way to get them to choose to live in the light. By identifying with us and our desires and temptations he showed us that we can choose right over wrong. From now on. And that is good news for all of us! Why not come and celebrate with us this Christmas?