We spent as must energy, passion, time and money sharing/showing our fellow co-workers/students/friends/neighbors/family members about Jesus as we spend on the Christmas season? How much different would our lives look like throughout the year? Maybe it is the commercialization of Christmas now or all the $$ that is spend on gifts that are expected or implied, but each year I get more and more frustrated with this holiday and it seems to me that we have gotten so off track that our excuses start making way too much sense.
I am not talking about catch phrases such as "the reason for the season", etc. What I am trying to get at is that those who experience Jesus as their personal savior have the ultimate gift that we do not deserve but have received anyway. Yet, we ( a big finger is pointing towards me!) are so ofter afraid to even bring up the name Jesus amongst those we work with or go to school with or even live next to. Yet, at the same time we get stressed, spend too much $$ and worry about what I need to buy for so and so and how much time we get off and whose house we are going to for "the day".
Maybe it's the holiday season blues that are getting to me but I don't think so. Instead of thinking about this upcoming Christmas and New Years, maybe we need to start thinking about the other 363 days a year and how those days are so much more important that these two aforementioned days....just a thought
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Hmmm. Interesting. I think for me, part of my frustration comes from the fact that every year I want to spend more time actually experiencing the season of Christmas but every year it gets more and more compressed in the "Year End" rush of business. It seems like I get about two days to actually be in the season, and one of those is for shopping?
Money? Time? You make good arguments for both, but I still go back to one of my fundamental ideas about witnessing: unless it's in your life, all the discussions in the world won't change someone's mind. Since it seems so much of missionary work is relational and society has often built up a stereotype of what they conceive Christianity to be, it comes down to relationship and demonstrating Christ to be able to credibly share Christ.
Which of course takes time - that most precious of all commodities...
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