Christmas is a time for tradition. It’s a season wherein we are careful to do those special things that we’ve always done in the ways we’ve always done them. We throw the customary parties, invite the regular folks, eat the expected foods, sing the songs, drink the drinks, watch the movies, give the gifts. Christmas is that one time of year in which we can count on things running more or less as they always have. Ironically, the stories underlying the whole season—the stories of Christ’s birth—are tales of profound disruption. As we will see this Sunday, they are narratives of God’s story breaking and entering into ours. Some of us—most of us—need divine disruption this December. Let’s answer God’s invasive invitation into His story this Christmas!