{"id":1304,"date":"2015-12-21T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2015-12-21T20:51:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:51:40","slug":"christmas-eve-sermon-synopsis-from-riches-to-rags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Sermon Synopsis: From Riches to Rags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pc pgpc1 pgw0 pgh0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx1 pgh2 pgy1 pgff1 pgfs0 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\"><strong>From Riches to Rags<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx1 pgh2 pgy1 pgff1 pgfs0 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx2 pgh3 pgy2 pgff2 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\">How &#8217;bout if the fairy tale read like this instead:<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx2 pgh3 pgy2 pgff2 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx3 pgh3 pgy7 pgff3 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\">&#8220;Once upon a time, there lived a happy young girl. Happy she was for she had married a Prince and her mother-in-law loved her one big bit. All the nice things, kind thoughts and loving touches were for her and her alone. Beautiful dresses, exotic shoes, hand-stitched shawls, delicious food, lovely dishes, comfy beds, as well as every palace comfort. And she never had to lift a hand to work; her servants performed her every bidding.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx3 pgh3 pgy7 pgff3 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx3 pgh3 pgyb pgff3 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\">Then one da<span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">y<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">,<\/span> <span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">r<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">ags<\/span> arrived at the palace. A Bar-Mitzvah was to be held in one of the Housing Projects in the town&#8217;s most notorious slum. <span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">Sudde<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">nl<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">y<\/span>, something <span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">am<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">az<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">i<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">ng<\/span> happened. In her palatial dining hall, where she was sitting all by herself, there was a burst of light and a fairy appeared.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx2 pgh3 pgyf pgff3 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\">The fairy said, &#8216;The wind blew me your sighs. I know you would love to go into the slum and attend the Bar-Mitzvah. And so you shall.&#8217; Then with a flick of her magic wand, <span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">Ci<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">nde<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">r<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">e<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">l<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">l<\/span><span class=\"pgfc1 pgsc0\">a <\/span>found herself wearing the dirtiest and most ragged dress, the ugliest ever seen in the realm. So Cinderella went and lived unhappily ever after.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx2 pgh3 pgyf pgff3 pgfs1 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx4 pgh4 pgy13 pgff2 pgfs2 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\">This story may not be that far-fetched from the one that was no fairy tale, when the Son of God left the riches of Heaven to live in the &#8220;slums&#8221; of earth. 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