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Where else but Dallas and who else but Ed Young, Jr., would pass out 3-D glasses for their Christmas Eve services, dim the lights, and run the video?\u00a0 And wouldn\u2019t you know it, at least one of the videos was about Jesus<\/span> Young himself!<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News is on the scene:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little cheesy, but cheese works,\u201d said Ed Young, pastor of the Grapevine-based megachurch with campuses in Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Miami.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night in Grapevine, about 4,000 people \u2013 nearly a full house \u2013 came for the first of the church\u2019s well-advertised 3-D Christmas services. Adults and children alike each got a pair of paper-frame glasses with red and blue plastic lenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Grapevine megachurch premieres 3-D Christmas services | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Tarrant County News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DMN News photo by Mona Reeder.\u00a0 And I have it on good authority that she was not allowed to request the names of the people in the shot; in fact, she was not allowed to move from the one spot on the floor that they told her to stand.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where else but Dallas and who else but Ed Young, Jr., would pass out 3-D glasses for their Christmas Eve services, dim the lights, and run the video?\u00a0 And wouldn\u2019t you know it, at least one of the videos was about Jesus Young himself! 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