Christmas Downunder
Shawn, you wrote "what kind of witness is it to celebrate the sun-god holidays and say that it's God's Son holidays? That's called lying. And even people that don't worship God know that lying is wrong. So they just keep thinking, "what hypocrites" probably. I'm not opposed to xmas... I'm just opposed to calling it anything but a PAGAN holiday...since that's what it is."
Well, that's your view and I can respect it. However, thinking of my liberty in Christ, it's not my view (eg. Ro8:21 "in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God"). I feel I don't want to be bound by any rules of any type in regard to celebrating any special days that have some Christian significance and opportunity to witness before man in our society (Luke 12:8-9).
I just feel that Christmas is a time when the world pauses and does actually think of God the creator of all around us, and his Son. And his purpose in creation for our lives and provision in his Son for our redemption. It's all very well to piously say "we remember the gift of Jesus to the world every Sunday", but seems to me that this is a unique opportunity for Christian witness and to glorify God amongst unbelievers.
And maybe we'll catch up with some of you guys at Belgrave Heights convention later this week??
# posted by geoff @ 3:26 pm
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