Holy Night: For All The People, Part 2
This fourth message in El Morro’s Holy Night Advent series turns the “love candle” from a warm holiday sentiment into a living, moving force revealed in Jesus—love that stepped into our world, wore flesh, and now refuses to sit still in the lives of His people. Centering on the shepherds in Luke 2, the sermon highlights how, once the angels depart and the sky goes quiet, the shepherds respond not with debate but with action: “Let’s go,” and then they “made known” what they had seen—capturing the core rhythm, “Jesus came; they went.” Because God chose ordinary, overlooked shepherds as the first witnesses, the message is underscored as truly for everyone and carried by anyone who is willing. From there, the call expands in three movements of love: we go first to those nearest us (neighbors, coworkers, family) with prayerful presence and faithful witness (echoing the BLESS pattern), and then we go outward in the Spirit’s power (Acts 1:8) to the ends of the earth through missions, cross-cultural love, and, for some, personal going—because the love that came to us must not end with us. The closing prayer and benediction send the church with a simple charge: Christ has come, so now we embody His coming by going in peace and going in love—near, overlooked, and beyond.