1 Thessalonians 5:16-24
• Tis the season of giving. When I turned 16 I received the gift of this guitar. I’m not very good, but my friends saw something in my enthusiasm and planted the idea that I could be good. Enthusiastic about guitar.
• I’m not particularly enthusiastic about getting flu shot, but I get em every year.
Flu shot, they actually inject you with weak or dead strain of the flu, and your body reacts against it, then if you come in contact with the real thing, your body is ready.
Inoculation against virus. Injected into and utilized by living body.
The verb to inoculate is from Latin inoculare, which meant "to graft or implant" (as a plant part is grafted onto another plant); Over 2,000 years old, modern practice in 18th C. led to eradication of polio and the wide-spread control of many diseases, saving many lives.
• In a way, inoculation and enthusiasm are synonyms.
• Enthusiasm: God is in us, in our world. We recognize its advent (it happens) at Christmas. The incarnation is God’s life-saving inoculation of the world
• Incarnation: Jesus comes into living world and gives power.
Prayer that God would be born in us, change and save our lives, and that in our enthusiasm for God, others would know God.
• Reading of Luke 2 by Deb with musical accents by Josie, Art, Dylan, Brandon
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