Five responses to Jesus' birth

Camperdown Methodist Church, 25 December 2011, 08h00
Rev Steven Jones

Scripture readings: Luke 2: 1-20


This morning I’m not going to re-hash the elements of the Christmas story – that really cool puppet show has probably told the story far better than I could ever preach it – but I’d like us to ponder on something for a moment. Don’t you find it interesting how we as human beings like to align ourselves with certain groups? For instance, this Christmas I decided to spoil my family and have DStv installed at the manse – especially given that we are all sports-crazy in our house. But when I filled in the forms, they wanted to know whether I consider myself to be white, black, Indian, coloured, or “other”. Well, apart from the fact that we’ve been moving house in 40-degree blazing heat, turning my complexion a bright shade of red and thereby forcing me to tick the “other” block, could someone please tell me what one’s race has to do with taking out a subscription for satellite television?

But this morning, I’m not going to talk about racial classifications, but rather how different people’s responses to the Christmas story can be classified. So instead of five different race options, this morning we’ll look at five different responses, and as we note them, I think you’ll realize that each and every one of us fits into at least one of them. Maybe you’ll fit into more... [To download the full sermon, click here]

Where to find us

There are many ways to find Camperdown Methodist Church.  Here are a few:

Physical address
1 Old Main Road
Camperdown
kwaZulu-Natal

Directions
From Durban: Drive +/- 50km on the N3 towards Pietermaritzburg, take Camperdown offramp, turn right and cross the freeway and travel about 300m to Old Main Road.  Turn left, and follow Old Main Road for +/- 1.5km, and you will find the church on the right.

From Pietermaritzburg: Drive +/- 15km on the N3 towards Durban, take Camperdown offramp, turn left and travel about 250m to Old Main Road.  Turn left, and follow Old Main Road for +/- 1.5km, and you will find the church on the right.

GPS co-ordinates
-29.728067, 30.525831

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Other ways to get hold of us
E-mail: campmeth [at] yebo [dot] co [dot] za
Telephone (office): +27 (031) 7851228
Snail mail: PO Box 123, Camperdown 3720

Prayer in commemoration of World AIDS Day: 1 December 2011