This card is unusual in that, instead of crowding a chronology of things into one moment in the stable, it has three pictures to tell how the shepherds heard, looked, then went to the stable.
An obvious alarm is that they seem to have needed the wise men's star as well as the instruction of the angel to find the babe. I'd always thought the angel's directions were rather good -
"Today in the City of David a Saviour has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord! And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger."
But looking at the third picture it appears that even the previously unknown addition of the 'sat nav' star to aid the shepherds was not enough.
For yes, on picture 2 there are 5 shepherds, on picture 3 at the mangerside there are only 3 (plus the wise men). Maybe two went to the pub? Or midnight mass? Still, overall a 60% attendance rate is something most pastors would be happy to accept . . .
An obvious alarm is that they seem to have needed the wise men's star as well as the instruction of the angel to find the babe. I'd always thought the angel's directions were rather good -
"Today in the City of David a Saviour has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord! And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger."
But looking at the third picture it appears that even the previously unknown addition of the 'sat nav' star to aid the shepherds was not enough.
For yes, on picture 2 there are 5 shepherds, on picture 3 at the mangerside there are only 3 (plus the wise men). Maybe two went to the pub? Or midnight mass? Still, overall a 60% attendance rate is something most pastors would be happy to accept . . .
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