{"id":11999,"date":"2016-12-19T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=11999"},"modified":"2016-12-19T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:40:55","slug":"whos-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2016\/12\/19\/whos-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s looking?"},"content":{"rendered":"
A switch in perspective<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Around this time of year somebody like me is bound to be asked something like this: ‘don’t you disapprove of all the stuff and nonsense surrounding Christmas’<\/em>?\u00a0 In fact, I was asked something very similar on a live radio show a couple of weeks ago. My answer would generally be that I do not disapprove. After all, if God could be found ‘in amongst the mess’ on the first Christmas, why should the same not be true now? A God who can be found in a feeding trough of a borrowed shed on the back of a pub could surely be found in amongst the tinsel too?<\/p>\n The thing is, though, Christmas is surely more about God finding us<\/em> than the other way around? It is all about Him going to inordinate lengths and crossing an inconceivable gulf to find us. Christmas is about God speaking our<\/em> language that he might be understood. It was in order to make exactly that point that I used the advert below during last night’s carol service. See what you think…<\/p>\n