....from Philip Yancey
"There’s a place in one of Martin Luther’s
nativity sermons where he asks something like, “Do you know what a stable
smells like? You know what that family would have smelled like after the birth
when they went out in to the city? And if they were standing next to you, how
would you have felt about them and regarded them?”
He is saying, ‘I want you to see Christ in
the neighborhood you tend to despise – in the political party you despise, in
the class of people you despise.
Christmas is the end of thinking you are
better than someone else, because Christmas is telling you that you could never
get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you."
Click HERE for this posting on Philip Yancey's Facebook Page.
"There’s a place in one of Martin Luther’s nativity sermons where he asks something like, “Do you know what a stable smells like? You know what that family would have smelled like after the birth when they went out in to the city? And if they were standing next to you, how would you have felt about them and regarded them?”
Christmas is the end of thinking you are
better than someone else, because Christmas is telling you that you could never
get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you."
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