A Chinese convert to Christianity, asked to give his testimony, replied: "It was like I was in a very deep well. I was sinking deeper and deeper and couldn't find any way out. As I looked upward, I saw a face peering down at me. A voice said, `My child, I am Confucius, the father of your country. Had you obeyed my teaching you would never have landed where you are now.' He then waved his hand and left saying, `If you ever manage to get out of this well, be careful to follow my teachings'. Then came Buddha. Looking down into the well, he said, `My child, you have to quit the condition in which you find yourself. Rest down there where you are, fold your arms, and begin to think. You will find Nirvana, the peace that all of us desire.' I called back and said, `Father Buddha, if you could help me get out of here, I would be so thankful and would be willing to follow your instructions. But in this horrible place, how can I rest?' But Buddha did not get me out of the well. He left me in despair. But there came another man to the mouth of the well. He was a man full of goodness. On his face were marks of great sorrow and suffering. He wasted no time in offering words of comfort for up there, but rather crawled down into the well and pulled me out of the terrible clay in which I was wallowing. After he lifted me to the surface, he took off my dirty clothes and dressed me in clean, new clothes. Then he invited me to follow him, saying, `I will never leave you'. That man was Jesus Christ, and this was why I became a Christian." As I read this testimony, I thought, "This is the true story of Christmas". When the angel appeared to Joseph to give him the announcement of the Messiah’s birth, he predicted, “the virgin will be with child and bear a son, and they will call him Immanuel which means ‘God with us’.” The true story of Christmas is that God took upon himself human flesh and crawled down into that well where we were mired in our sinful condition so that he could rescue us, dress us in clean clothing, and invite us to become his followers.