We gather to celebrate anew the advent of our Savior in our
world.
We welcome the Christ with great gladness!
Let the Lord enter again into our lives and shape our souls
to his likeness.
In the Nativity God was made flesh and became one in whom we
place our whole trust.
For our Lord was born of a woman as we are and was adopted by her husband into the family of
humankind.
In that manner, we are born again by God’s Spirit and are adopted by God into his family.
We thank our redeeming God for that Marvelous Exchange!
We pledge in our worship to be reborn in his image. We
promise in our Christmas to keep Christ in us. We vow in our lives to be his presence
in this world.
We keep Christ in this Christmas, remembering with gladness
the reason for this day!
We shall keep Christ from this Nativity day until the next,
remembering with thankfulness that we are his body in this world. Come, holy Jesus, come, and dwell with us!
