Christmas Musicals for Church
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SHERIFF: Now don't panic! We don't know if that's true or not! DEPUTY: I got a telegraph! SALLY: Don't you see what's going on here? We're getting all wrapped up in things that really don't matter to our celebration of Christmas. Listen, people, Christmas is about Jesus in the manger; not being modern or catching some bad guy we haven't even seen! SHERIFF: Sally's right. That's why God sent Jesus, so we don't have to live in fear! Remember the first thing the angels had to say to the shepherds? Fear not! ELVIN: So God don't want us to be afraid of desperados? MISS POLLY: That's not the point, Elvin. The point is, in God's town, we're all desperados. We were separated from God. We were hidin' from God. Except that in God's town, nobody's good. Everybody's a desperado. SALLY: We're all out here trying to catch some outlaw like we ain't all outlaws ourself! Long time ago, the trail we was on split from God's trail and we chose to go our own way. Since then, we're the outsiders, we're the outlaws! SHERIFF: Imagine us catchin' the Lonesome Stranger, an' someone come up and says, "I'll go to jail for him!" JANE: Aw, pshaw, who'd love an outlaw? MISS POLLY: Jesus would. He came into our world as a baby so we didn't have to be separated from God no more! (music begins to "God with Us, Emmanuel") SONG: "GOD WITH US, EMMANUEL" For Preview Only