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Christmas Eve

Dec 24, 2008 Print This Post

When I was a kid, I used to love going to the Christmas Eve Service at church. Every year it was the same deal:
- Our pastor would sing a solo rendition of “O Holy Night”
- Someone would do a reading from Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth
- We would sing some Christmas Carols
- We would see extended church family members we hadn’t seen in a year
- We would light candles and turn off all the lights while we sang “Silent Night”

While I’m not always the biggest fan of tradition for the sake of tradition, I do see the value in times like these.

Tonight (at 4ish and 6ish), we’ll be holding our Christmas Eve Services at Riv. No, I won’t be singing a solo and we won’t be lighting candles (we did that once and our facility guy almost made me personally clean up all the wax). But the rest of the service will have some of these familiar memories for many of us.

It reminds me of a quote from Samuel Johnson I’ll be sharing tonight:

“People more frequently require to be reminded, than to be instructed.”

Come join us tonight and be reminded.