We’ve romanticized the Christmas story, but Pastor Allen Jackson discusses how the first Christmas celebration was a difficult event that broke expectations and norms. Mary and Joseph’s plans had been rewritten. Jesus’s birth was not a comfortable, planned event that fit the dreams they had for one another. The logistics of the day were a mess. There was confusion, stress, and widespread fear. It sounds like Christmas 2020. But there is hope! Pastor Allen reminds us how God’s purposes are unfolding around us today, just as certainly as they were the day Jesus was born in Bethlehem.