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| THIS CHRISTMAS Musical Production New Christmas songs and a unique story tell the real meaning of Christmas in this contemporary holiday musical designed for local church production. The Script, sheet music & MP3 Trax are available for download | ||
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THIS CHRISTMAS
Terry Clark: Executive producer the story This year Family Bible Chapel’s Christmas Eve program is spotlighting the common, working-people focus that is seen in everything Jesus is about. Like the announcement of His birth. The angels didn’t appear in Herod’s court or to the Sanhedrin. They had the party in the fields with ... SHEPHERDS. They were the ones who got the news direct. Shepherds, slaves, street people from the wrong side of the tracks, the unclean, uncouth, common men, were the ones invited to see Him first. Cool, huh? We have had a bumper crop of kids over the last 10 years so the children’s choir is enormous and HEEEEERE THEY COME!! Every color of kid in God's Creation swarms onto the platform and spills down the steps. At first it looks like chaos will break out. That is, until the music starts. The moment they hear the hip-hop beat, they just start grinnin’ and swayin’. There’s the down beat, the sway, the grins. Let the celebration begin! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!!! Happy birthday Jesus Happy birthday Jesus Happy birthday Jesus Happy birthday Jesus Happy birthday Jesus At the last “Happy Birthday!!!”, our teen-rock band kicks off their version of THIS CHRISTMAS, contrasting the tinsel and commercialism of the world’s Christ-less “Winter Holiday” with the global birthday party for the our Savior-King. The room goes dark and our vision is filled with projected scenes of Christmas decorations, Santa Clauses and crowded shopping malls alternating with pictures of the actual countryside around Bethlehem with shepherds and their sheep. THIS CHRISTMAS This Christmas This Christmas chorus This Christmas This Christmas chorus
A CHRISTMAS MORNING HOLIDAY Stars are shining brightly Not a frown or hint of sadness Slowly during that chorus the dawn begins to light the sky. We see the smiles and hear the squeals of laughter as the children discover the very things they had been hoping for around the tree and the beautiful, carved nativity scene. Then the bike and skates and little tricycle are all test-driven in the bright morning sunshine. Back in the house we see the aftermath of all that has happened and a kind of hush falls as they all stand taking it in. Dad clears a spot on the couch and slumps into it like a rag doll in front of the tree. He didn’t notice Ruthie sitting between him and the nativity scene until she turned around and tilted her little head to the side and squinted at him. He could see she had a serious question so he pulled her up in his lap and cradled her in his arms. After only a few seconds of warm silence, the question came...“Daddy... What is Chrissstmassst? Pastor Bill said it was more than getting presents from Santa Claus.” She pointed at the carved shape of a baby in a manger and said, “Did he mean that Baby Jesus was born? Daddy? What is Chrissstmassst, weally?” Mom moved closer and looked deeply into those little confused eyes and sings the simple answer: THE REAL MEANING OF CHRISTMAS TIME Is much more than food and wine And presents under trees of lights There’s much more to Christmas time The real meaning of Christmas time chorus The real meaning of Christmas time chorus Ruthie pushes herself off my lap, her gaze fixed on the little figures gathered around the tiny manger. The straw suddenly becomes real. The animals are real but the crowd of people are gone. A young girl, barely a teenager, is doing her daily routine of bringing in fresh straw and feeding the oxen, donkey and sheep. The dim light in the mud shelter explodes brighter than the brightest noonday Mary had ever seen. The impact of the light’s brightness threw her to the ground. She was paralyzed with fear. Thoughts flashed through her mind, “Am I dead? Did the world explode?!” She heard the angel’s voice long before her eyes would focus on the figure in front of her. MARYBlessed above all others Mary Chosen one of God Don’t be afraid You’ll conceive And you’ll bear a Son After God, the Most High Will o’ershadow you The Child you will bear Will be the Son of God And you shall give To Him the name Jesus As Gabriel finishes delivering the news the light intensifies and transports us nine months into the future. This time the bright, whiteness is bathing hillsides, sheep and shepherds just below the little town of Bethlehem. AND THE SOUND!!! YOUR KING IS BORN TODAY! Across the sky the praises ringing Glory to God in highest Heaven Peace on Earth to all is Given Don’t be afraid Don’t be afraid Your King is born today Your King is born today Follow the Star WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR We followed it to find the king Who came to bring a reign of light Underneath its beam He was born tonight And we’ll worship Him (We will worship Him) We will worship Him this night Though we’ve traveled far To our journey’s end We have found the greatest hope The world won’t be the same again We have seen His star We have seen the light And we’ll worship Him (We will worship Him) We will worship Him this night We have seen His star STAR OF BETHLEHEM A lowly workin’ man Watchin’ these sheep That belong to another man I’ve got a wife Three children in Galilee Just lived day-to-day ‘Til on this hill I see The Star of Bethlehem (x2) An angel appeared I walked down the mountain JUST A SWEET LITTLE BABY A sweet little boy, He’s just a stranger But I see in His eyes Everything I’ll ever need When I look into His eyes I see all I’ll ever need Just a sweet little baby lyin’ in a manger chorus Just a sweet little baby lyin’ in a manger A sweet little boy, He’s just a stranger But from this day on I know the promised King has come From this day on I’ll tell the world their King has come chorus The little hand that gripped that old shepherd’s rough finger was the same Hand that was nailed to a cross and bled and died. That same Hand reached out to show it’s wound to one of His doubting brothers after He was risen. And that same Hand took my broken life and made it whole and wholly His for eternity. Kid’s, I learned the Bible stories, the same ones you have learned. I knew Jesus and talked to Him, just like you do. I was convinced that He was everything I had heard He was. But one day, I heard His voice. I looked into His eyes and felt Him touch me deep down in the hidden center of my life. Immediately, Jesus became more than my idea of Him. Jesus the concept became the Yahveh-shua of the Bible, alive and tangible! He became much more than “real”. He had always been the Savior, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, but He became all that to me. He’s more than just a story on Christmas or Easter. Jesus is much more than that to me. JESUS IS MORE Whose birth we’re celebrating Good reason for a holiday But He’s more More than a boy born in a manger More than a story of the past chorus Jesus the Saviour chorus |
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