The Christmas season is a very busy time of year. Getting a tree and decorating it, decorating the lawn with a pagan or religious theme, lighting the outside of the house, buying gifts for family and friends, going to parties at work, school, and Church, taking the kids to see Santa Claus, going to a Christmas Eve Service, sending out cards plus other activities takes much of our time and thoughts.
When I use to celebrate Christmas in this way the reason why Jesus came was not on my mind. The significance of His birth was not even a consideration. I was too caught up in the pagan aspects of the season. I am sure I am not alone in this experience.
Nearly all of the godless activites of the Christmas season I no longer participate in. You may still participate in these activites of the season. If you do I would like to encourage you to put Christ back into Christmas by sharing the love of God to a lost, hurting, and dying world.
Pray. Seek God on what He would have you to do to show those who are lost, hurting, and have a need to know that God cares about them.
When I use to celebrate Christmas in this way the reason why Jesus came was not on my mind. The significance of His birth was not even a consideration. I was too caught up in the pagan aspects of the season. I am sure I am not alone in this experience.
Nearly all of the godless activites of the Christmas season I no longer participate in. You may still participate in these activites of the season. If you do I would like to encourage you to put Christ back into Christmas by sharing the love of God to a lost, hurting, and dying world.
Pray. Seek God on what He would have you to do to show those who are lost, hurting, and have a need to know that God cares about them.
I believe there is a balance here. I understand where you are coming from as far as pagan goes; but don't you think the heart of an unsaved person is more likely to be touched by the beauty exemplified with lights and the overall aurora of Christmas time in and of itself? I view these as tools to introduce the Christ of Christmas starting with the manger scene.
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ReplyDeleteNo, I do not believe " the heart of an unsaved person is more likely to be touched by the beauty exemplified with lights and the overall aurora of Christmas time in and of itself".
A party spirit is what controls man (saved and lost) during this season. That spirit is of the anti-christ and it will not allow anyone to focus on or receive Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God who sent His Son into the world to save sinners.
People come to faith in Jesus Christ through the preaching of the Word not through worldly ornaments and activities.
There are many hurting and lost people in the world who need to hear the message that God cares, Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead to give them forgiveness of sin and eternal life and hope in this world and the one to come.
The Christmas celebration is a hybrid of the profane and the holy. The profane drowns out the holy. It leaves the person's (saved or lost) heart with the belief that it is all about me and my pleasure. No, it is not. It is all about God sending His Son into the world to save sinners.
Christains need to repent from the profane and take the message to a lost and dying world that Jesus came into the world to save poeple from their sins just like the shepards did after they encountered the living Christ on the night He was born and laid in a manager.