Go Tell It on the Mountain

What if the greatest announcement in human history wasn't made to kings in palaces, but to shepherds in fields? This powerful exploration of Luke 2:7-20 reminds us that God consistently uses the ordinary to proclaim the extraordinary. The shepherds—considered insignificant by society, unable even to testify in courts—became the first evangelists of the gospel. They were working when the angels appeared, and their response teaches us three transformative movements: the calling, the going, and the return. We discover that there's profound joy in knowing our calling, in taking action toward what God has shown us, and in returning to our ordinary lives transformed. The message challenges us to move beyond merely hearing God's word to actively responding in faith. Like the shepherds who didn't just receive the message but went to Bethlehem and then told everyone what they'd seen, we're called to receive, respond, and report. The beauty is that God doesn't call the rich and mighty—He calls the humble and lowly. If we've ever felt insignificant or overlooked, this is our good news: the same God who chose shepherds to announce His Son's birth has a calling on our lives too.