Yeah. Yeah. First, first and only time that I've ever been asked to play an angel. So how many,

super curious, how many of you by show hands across our campuses have started attending Southland

less than 10 years ago? So within the last 10 years, you started attending Southland. Wow, a whole

bunch of you. So it's actually possible that you

did not see the Christmas According to Kids videos the first time around because that was a little over

nine years ago that we did that. If you have experienced it, you may have experienced it because it literally

went viral. The last I checked, 76 million views of those original videos on Facebook alone, 7.1 million views on YouTube, and last

year a Kardashian shared it. So we got that going for us. I don't know what that means,

but we got that going for us. So the question becomes like, why would we run this thing back?

And I'm really, really glad that you asked. We're going to run this thing back because of something very specific that Jesus said in an interaction that he had with his

disciples just to set the stage today for us watch watch this at that time the disciples came to

Jesus saying and this seems to be what is always on their minds who's the greatest in the

kingdom of heaven and calling to him a child, Jesus put him

in the midst of them and said, truly, I say to you, unless you turn, and here it is, become like

children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child

is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. So Jesus himself says we need to become like children.

And what better opportunity do we have we need to become like children. And what better

opportunity do we have than Christmas to become like children? The problem is we've lost

something, those of us who are older. Every year around this time, I love to read one of my favorite

authors. His name is G.K. Chesterton. And one of the reasons I love him is because he noticed this

connection between our

creator and kids that a lot of us as we've grown older have lost. And he famously said it this way,

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