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Merry Christmas.

Since today's article is being emailed to subscribers all across the globe, I suppose I

could say instead, Feliz Navidad, or Buon Natale, or share Christmas greetings in scores of

other languages.

Today's celebration is the most universal of all holidays, recognized in one

form or another by more than two billion people around the world, and that is as it should be,

since Christmas is God's loving gift to the entire world. From candlelight celebrations in

church parking lots to hybrid in-person and virtual services,

congregations across America adapted yesterday to a Christmas Eve like no other in living memory.

Now we join believers who are celebrating our Lord's birth around the world.

I have been privileged to worship with Christians in large and small churches across

our country and overseas. I have gathered with believers in huts in Malaysia, a cafeteria in

Cairo, an office building in Beijing, and a garage in Cuba. I have stood with Christians at

Mars Hill in Athens, the Bama in Corinth, the baptismal river in Philippi,

and the massive theater in Ephesus. I have worshipped with God's people in a boat on the Sea of

Galilee, at the gates of hell in Caesarea Philippi, and before the western wall in Jerusalem.

At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb, I have

seen throngs of people glorifying the risen Christ in scores of languages. I say all of that to say this.

The global pandemic changed the way Jesus was worshipped on Christmas Eve, but it has not changed

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