Christmas through the Carols {Silent Night}
Christmas through the Carols
Narration and Production Notes for a Complete Christmas Eve Service
Take advantage of the revised and expanded, newly formatted Christmas through the Carols for your church’s Christmas presentation this season.
Download includes sample service order, production notes, master script, 8 separate narrator scripts (adaptable for 2 or 7 narrators), and 5 presentation graphics (including PowerPoint slides, bulletin header, and print graphics).
PDF Download, JPEG Presentation & Promotional Graphics
Paperback script includes sample service order, song selection, 8 complete narrations (adaptable for 2 or 7 narrators), and production notes.
Narration 7
NARRATOR A
On Christmas Eve we celebrate the most joyous event in all of history – the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.
NARRATOR B
The question is not if you are celebrating . . .
NARRATOR A
The question is how.
NARRATOR B
Does your celebration end with only remembering and acknowledging the gift God gave through Jesus?
NARRATOR A
Does it end with commemorating the gift with family celebrations, gift giving, and Christmas cheer?
NARRATOR B
Or does it really mean something to you?
NARRATOR A
Will you stop and let Christmas make you different this year?
NARRATOR B
Just like the Shepherds and Wise Men, we have been made aware of the birth of the Christ-child. No longer do we stand as a passerby in Bethlehem.
NARRATOR A
Our understanding calls us to a responsibility that far outweighs the presents we buy and the get-togethers we plan.
NARRATOR B
We have a decision to stop and worship or remain unchanged.
NARRATOR A
Our hope this Christmas is that you would allow this year to be different.
NARRATOR B
That despite the holidays you would find Christmas.
NARRATOR A
You would find Jesus.
NARRATOR B
Jesus was not sent only to be a baby in a manger or remembered in Christmas carols and services.
NARRATOR A
He was sent to be Savior . . . a personal Savior for each and every one of us. His life’s purpose was to go to the Cross and purchase for us what we could not purchase on our own . . . our right-standing and peace with God.
NARRATOR B
Because of the sin in our hearts we are unable to make right our wrongs against God.
NARRATOR A
We need someone who is like us – human in every way – to make right the debt we carry.
NARRATOR B
But we also need someone like God – sufficiently capable and able to fix us where we are broken, mend us, and make us right in His presence – because we can’t pay the debt we owe. We never could and we never will.
NARRATOR A
Because God loves us, and because He knew we could never make things right – in His holy, awesome and merciful way – God sent His Son.
NARRATOR B
His only Son.
NARRATOR A
Completely like us, and completely like God.
NARRATOR B
The only person ever able to make us right before the Father.
NARRATOR A
And so we are offered salvation, eternal life, and access to God’s presence no matter who we are.
NARRATOR B
No matter where we are.
NARRATOR A
No matter where we’ve been.
NARRATOR B
All we have to do is ask Him.
NARRATOR A
And that is something worth celebrating.
Optional congregational instruction.
NARRATOR B
We would like to invite you to sing another carol with us – probably the most well known, and most loved Christmas carol – Silent Night. We ask that you would join us in singing. Please make your way to the altar area to pick up a candle and remain there.
NARRATOR A
We will be lighting each candle one by one symbolizing the way in which we can share the light of Jesus with everyone we meet.
Carol 7
Silent Night, words by Joseph Mohr, music by Franz Xavier Gruber
Verse 1
Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright
‘Round yon virgin mother and Child,
Holy Infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Verse 2
Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight;
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing alleliua;
Christ the Savior is born!
Christ the Savior is born!
Verse 3
Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, Love’s pure light,
Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth,
Jesus, Lord at Thy birth.
Please see the post entitled Christmas through the Carols {Christmas Eve Production Notes} for a complete service order, links to remaining narrations and carols, and service transition ideas.