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Last fall the Lord gave me a verse for our church in 2012,

Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

- Habakkuk 1:5

We have begun to see the fulfillment of this verse in our church. Lives are being changed, marriages are being mended, people are reading the Bible like never before and applying it to their lives, steps of faith are being taken, fourteen have been baptized this year, and three more are being baptized this Sunday!

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As Southern Baptist we have always prided ourselves on being people of the Book. A conviction that the Bible is God’s divine, inerrant, infallible, special revelation to man. It is upon this conviction that we apply the truths of Scripture to our lives; governing every area of our lives.

As R. M. Dudley, a noted 19th -century Baptist pastor, editor and professor stated, “The fundamental principle of the Baptists is their belief in the supreme authority and absolute sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures; and their separate existence is the practical and logical result of their attempt to apply this principle in all matters of religion. This is the bedrock on which the denomination rests.”

J. M. Frost, founding president of the Baptist Sunday School Board echoes that sentiment: “Baptists at different times in their history, and to meet impending claims and conflicts, have issued their confession of faith, and have always given this primal and decisive place to the Word of God as their one authority. This is the bedrock of their faith, the one rule of their practice.”

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Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.

- Luke 2:11

The little phrase “to you”, in this often quoted passage, makes a big difference to you and me.  The angel proclaims to the lowly shepherds that something of infinite value was given to them.  It was not for the angels, it was not only for the elite, the wealthy, the educated, the well connected, or the “good” people.  It was for them, three verses later our instinct that this savior is for all people is confirmed, but this time it is a host of angels that testify to the good news.  They inform the shepherds, “on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

This Christmas I am reminded of the personal expression of the love of God toward each of us in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.  Do you remember the day you realized a savior had been born to “YOU”?  I do, it is etched in my mind as the most glorious, life changing, transforming event that words cannot even begin to describe. 

My prayer for each of you that have not is that you would come to know the Christ of Christmas.

Pastor Allen