For those of you familiar with TV programmes, we ran our own version during the family service: Burgin’s Real Deal! Stephen brought three valuable items to be auctioned: an ornament of a baby, a large, dusty family book and a necklace. These items, representing the baby Jesus, the Bible and a gold cross, had to be bid for by the congregation.
In the end, though, an unexpected (!) telephone call changed the outcome of the bidding, as we were reminded that these things are of inestimable worth and that it cost God everything to bring us back into his family…
