The Christmas Odd Couple (revisited)

​Before Felix and Oscar in Neil Simon’s ‘The Odd Couple’ there were the Shepherds and Angels that first Christmas Night.  Never has there been a starker contrast between major players in any significant moment in history.  Not since Almighty God himself walked through the Garden of Eden with the underdressed for the occassion fig leaf clad Adam & Eve have there been such high society folk mixing with blue collar / red necked joe and joe-ettes.
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Think of it… The Angels from the Realms of Glory wing their flight over all the Earth, while the shepherds snack on ‘sheep jerky’ playing pull my finger jokes around the camp fire dressed and smelling like.. sheep.  

The Angel Choirs sing Hark.. and Glory to the new born king, while
​The Shepherds are in need of a SHEEP-PS (sheep positioning system) just to find this same baby Jesus. 

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It's safe to say you probably will not celebrate Christmas this year with a shepherd, or angel.  But you may be a Baptist in need of bran sitting in church next to a self proclaimed Charismatic 'Holy Roller'.  Or you may be a sharp dressed senior in suit & tie toting a leather bound red letter KJV bible sitting next to an unshaven Millennial in ripped jeans (on purpose!) with a bible app on his I-Phone using the MSG version. Come Lord Jesus Come!

So the more we change the more we stay the same. Pentecostals, Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, and more all worshiping the same Jesus those angels and shepherds did 2000+ years ago.

May God bless all you 'odd couples' this Christmas.
Jeff

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