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This is supposed to be a festive time of year where we wish one another peace as we celebrate the birth and life of Jesus, but for many people, this a time for war. The author of Ecclesiastes writes that there is a time for peace and a time for war, and for Evangelical Christians, this is a time for war. I didn’t know I was supposed to be at war, but I guess I am. Christian and conservative leaders are working hard to remind me that we are at war with our culture that is trying to take the (excuse me for the pun) Christ out of Christmas.
As a believer, I learn how to submit, forgive, extend humility, and rise up above worthless squabbles, but during Christmas, this is our opportunity to bring in reinforcements and fight for our right to sing our Christmas songs in public schools, and out of spite, to wish people a Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays!
Every year, we spend hours and hours wasting our breath talking about how the meaning of Christmas is being lost to commercialism, materialism, and liberalism (Though I seriously doubt liberals sit in a backroom trying to figure out how to undermine Christmas). As much as those things have permeated our culture and have re-invented/re-marketed Christmas, our faith was never meant to be informed by our culture nor our politics nor our schools nor our government.
The reason Christmas loses its meaning every year, is because I allow it to. I allow myself to get caught up in the lures of materialism. I allow my busyness and my pursuit of it to trump my attention to the Spirit of God and my pursuit of intimacy with Jesus. I am more guilty of undermining Christmas than all of those external and “evil” things combined. I have waged war on Christmas, and the enemy that I’m fighting is in me.
So when a teacher doesn’t allow young little Bobby to sing his song in class or Christmas-themed movies are purged from the prime-time television schedule, it is hardly the persecution of the Church and the war on Christians. So fellow Christians, take up your arms and fight against the war on Christmas that is within us!
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