Dec 23, 2022
As a longtime business performance coach I've taught people around the world this great truth. Storytelling is the only effective means of communication. If you want people to really attend to you and listen to you you need to know about the very principle that Jesus used all the time. Ask questions and tell stories!
So on this Christmas Eve Eve can I share with you two stories. The first one deals with the now world famous and often repeated Christmas program about the cartoon and comic character of Charlie Brown's Christmas. And when the creator of Charlie Brown, Charles Schulz produced the program the people at CBS were furious. They said it was terrible but they had to play it at least once because of a contract. Guess what happened. Well let me tell you that Christmas story.
And then a repeat just like Charlie Brown. and the story that I first told a number of years ago which has become well requested and in 10 minutes we try and have a little storytelling homily about what it might mean if by some act or a miracle or Grace we could indeed be Touched by an Angel.
You just might find it a bit touching and maybe a little bit encouraging.