Description 

Synopsis:

• Christmas time on the streets of San Francisco at nighttime bring some interesting answers when an interviewer asks people what they consider the perfect Christmas gift.
• Responses include having a happy, healthy family, to possessing money, to drinking a good cup of Starbucks coffee, to a week’s vacation in Breckenridge, Colorado to tickets to a Bob Dylan concert.
• A homeless man says that being off the streets would b the perfect present. A well- dressed woman says that clothing –providing it was purchased by the right person and being in love would be the ultimate present. One woman hates Christmas because she’s sickened by the commercialism.
• A guy says having a new car would give him joy in his heart ant a group of teens want clothes, jewelry, shoes and purses. Another woman wants jewelry because it lasts forever. When the interviewer reminds her that it won’t last after she dies, she seems dejected.
• Another woman wants a cabbage patch kid because it would bring happiness for a while.
• An elderly man who uses a walker gets it that there’s no greater love than if someone would lay down his life. The video ends with a simple question: What’s the perfect Christmas gift?
• Documentary style presentation—straight forward presentation.

Application:

• It’s a sad commentary that Christmas is more associated with commercialism than the Savior of the world.
• People are looking to fill the God vacuum – as if gifts are a temporary fix.
• We’re told in the Word to be content but by looking around it’s clear that Americans are not a content people as a whole.

Suggested Uses:

• Appropriate for Christmas season services and Bible studies.

Bible Reference:

• John 15:13 “Greater love hath no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.”