Happy Christmas from Simon!

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Happy Christmas, and thank you so much for listening this year! We'd love it if you could spread the word and inspire even more people in 2024 - so could you help us by reviewing or rating us on whatever platform you listen on? Or spread the word on social media, or recommend us to a friend! If you'd like to donate towards our partners, visit http://greatlakesoutreach.org/christmas (greatlakesoutreach.org/christmas)Sign up for Choose Life at http://chooselife.org.uk/ (chooselife.org.uk) We are releasing this episode as a video podcast so you can listen as normal or watch to see where the magic happens(!) --- For more from Simon, visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠simonguillebaud.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org⁠⁠)

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilber with Inspired. Inspired if you need to...
0:14.2	I don't need to do that, do I? Because this is all this is to say, guys, is I'm wishing you a very happy Christmas. I'm so grateful for the
0:23.5	loads of messages of encouragement from people around the world who've been massively blessed
0:28.8	over the last year through engaging with inspired. It's been a wonderful experience for me.
0:34.1	I've loved it. It's, yeah, it's just brought a lot of joy. It's been
0:37.9	brought a lot of joy to me as I review what has been a really challenging year. It hasn't been
0:43.0	a fun year for me. It's been one of the toughest of my life. I can't go into the reasons why,
0:48.7	but yeah, family stuff can sometimes be really challenging, right? And I was preaching a few days ago at the Christians in Parliament Carol service in London, the Emanuel Center.
1:01.4	And I told them about a horrific incident in 1964 when a 28-year-old woman called Kitty Genevice was attacked in a residential area of New York.
1:12.5	And she screamed for help for a full 30 minutes before succumbing to multiple stabroons. So she died. She was murdered
1:19.0	there. According to the New York Times, 38 people heard her cries for help. Some people even
1:26.4	looking out the window and watching
1:28.1	the attack take place, but none of them did anything to intervene. I guess all of them
1:33.6	presuming that someone else would. And that was when the term bystander apathy was born
1:38.6	from that event. And in sharing that story, I contrasted that with the fact that at Christmas, you know,
1:47.6	whereas with Kitty, no one came down to help. For us at Christmas, that is the message,
1:53.9	isn't it? That Jesus did come down, that God didn't leave us in the mess. He didn't leave us in
1:59.3	danger. He came down. He embraced humanity
2:01.6	in a gritty, costly, messy way to bring us hope and meaning and purpose and restoration. And that is the Christmas message.
2:08.5	So, folks, happy Christmas to you. Thanks for journeying with us. I trust the podcast has been used to
2:15.6	bring a lot more joy and encouragement and challenge as well and ultimately inspiration.
2:21.6	That's why we called it inspired.
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