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Though light on content, this article highlights an important part of a continuing effort by the church to adopt and utilize technology to effect the greatest good possible. This demonstrates the church's resourcefulness, regarding both the talent and the technology. By collaborating with well known artists who have made a name for themselves (separate from their membership in the church), the church shows that it is able to entrust its message to the interpretation of others. By utilizing the technologies of social media, the church displays that it is comfortable with technologies that it had no hand in creating. In this way, the church is showing to the world not only enthusiasm about Christmas (the surface message), but that it will confidently use the same technologies abused by many to do so. This is instructive both to members of the church as well as to the world; showing the potential for good that such technologies possess. There's certainly opportunity for the brethren to have shied away from using these new technologies, but it is evidence of the guiding hand of the Lord that the church is instead embracing them.