For our kids' Christmas program (at 5 pm on Christmas Day - the 2nd service of the day), a group of the teens presented a skit that we had seen at the youth conference in Bucharest a few weeks earlier. The lines & music were all on a prerecorded track, so all they had to do was lipsync & act (a huge relief for most teens!). The skit, entitled "Ce este Craciun?" or "What is Christmas?" is about a kid entering the library, looking for information about Christmas. The librarian hauls out her mega-size Bible concordance, and all are shocked to find that the things they normally associate with our celebration of the birth of Christ are nowhere to be found in Scripture (things like the word "Christmas" itself, the word "Noel", the concept of a silent & still night at the manger, a little drummer boy, etc.). After all of their misconceptions are exposed, the teens are left to ask, "Then what IS Christmas?" That's where the pastor jumped in with a reading of the Christmas story and the younger children took over with their songs and poems about the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of the Savior, the incarnate Son of God - one of the events in history that is far beyond my ability to comprehend!
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