DEC 22
My Household Family of God
by Scott Field

During the past ten years, my mother’s health gradually declined as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. She recently went to be with the Lord. Some of her favorite things in life were her Christian faith, children, music, and Christmas, all of which are embodied in The Living Christmas Tree. She enjoyed “The Tree For the Children” two years ago when we had the storyteller and participating children. She was bedridden the next year, but would have loved to have seen “The Night of The Child” last year with the live lamb. She also loved animals.

First Baptist Church is celebrating its 200 th Anniversary this year, acknowledging the role of the saints who came before us in the building of God’s kingdom, with Christ as the cornerstone. As we celebrate Christ’s coming to us as a child with the 25th Living Christmas Tree, we should also remember Christ’s love for children as well as His foundation for the household of God of which we are members.

People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.” Luke 18:15-16

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. Ephesians 2:19-20