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Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/1/2009 11:17:14 PM
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Isaiah331516
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Do you celebrate Christmas? If you celebrate it in a non-traditional manner (ie no presents or decorations) please elaborate. Thanks!
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 12:24:09 AM
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Isaiah331516
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Wow! Thanks for responding!
i am really curious about the numbers of those who do and don't.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 12:12:01 PM
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I celebrate Christmas. Every Christian should. (Leaving aside the eternal debate about the exact date of Christ's birth).
The question is: How?
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 12:54:22 PM
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We celebrate Christmas, in our family, and in the Church. We celebrate the greatest gift ever given, and show our love one to another through communion, gifts, etc.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 12:58:34 PM
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Corne
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We celebrate the day and season as a season/day of faith and as a cultural holiday.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 1:29:03 PM
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We celebrate Christmas, in our family, and in the Church. We celebrate the greatest gift ever given, and show our love one to another through communion, gifts, etc.
Thanks
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Our church may even do the play "Greatest Gift". I've seen the play performed many times both in churches and at colleges, and I've even been an actor/pianist on a couple of those occasions.
I certainly celebrate the greatest gift ever given. What an opportunity it is to speak of our Lord to the lost world during this season where nearly every carol at least alludes to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It's an amazing opportunity that every single one of us ought to take advantage of, even if you don't celebrate the holiday. So invite your lost family and friends to Christmas activities at church or in the community, and talk about Jesus, who was born to die, who loved us so much that He gave His life for us.
In Christ,
ZG
In Christ,
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 2:16:05 PM
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I do celebrate christmas but am feeling more and more that I just do it for the family..The 25th December is not Jesus birth and how we justify it with the background it has I'll never know..I need to take a good hard look at why I am doing this and make a stand/choice
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 2:39:29 PM
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Since we have learned the pagan origin of Dec 25th, we have ceased observing this day. I have talked to Pastors who have said the day has been christianized from the pagans? Huh? Only God can Christianize or bless, or make Holy a day. We mortals seem to think we can do the same thing... So as we are not sure of the date (sometime in Autumn), and this day is not commanded, it is a tradition of man..and Jesus covered that when He addressed it as hypocrisy when we follow the traditions of man, and follow not my Commandments in Matthew 15. Also refer to Jeremiah chapter 10
Know the truth and it will set you free
Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy
God bless us all.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 2:44:38 PM
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I enjoy all that is Christmas!
We use this "perfect" season an a great opportunity for evangelism in our community.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 2:45:16 PM
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Since we have learned the pagan origin of Dec 25th, we have ceased observing this day. I have talked to Pastors who have said the day has been christianized from the pagans? Huh? Only God can Christianize or bless, or make Holy a day. We mortals seem to think we can do the same thing... So as we are not sure of the date (sometime in Autumn), and this day is not commanded, it is a tradition of man..and Jesus covered that when He addressed it as hypocrisy when we follow the traditions of man, and follow not my Commandments in Matthew 15. Also refer to Jeremiah chapter 10
Know the truth and it will set you free
Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy
God bless us all.
Do you celebrate ANY holidays at all during the year?
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:06:54 PM
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I refuse to let the world or the superstitious take away the joy of my celebration of the coming of God With Us.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:11:49 PM
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My wife and I were saved back in the early seventies in the old Jesus Movement (she'd left New Age, and I left athiesm). Like most dewy-cheeked new Christians, we were open to just about anything an older (in the faith, that is) Christian would tell us.
Long story short, we found ourselves attending a very hard-line, legalistic church. I.e. these folks were the original kill-joys: birthdays were evil, rock music was evil and holidays (especially Christmas and Easter) were evil. Matter of fact, most things were evil to this bunch ... except eating. Good gravy, those folks could pack away the grub.
Anyway, after about six months of this, one Sunday after service my wife and I were heading back to our apartment, when suddenly she said to me, "I'm leaving Christianity. I just wanted you to know."
Thunderstruck, I asked her why. In staccato words she told me she couldn't find the joy in our lives that had been advertised, only a dreary, unending set of rules and regulations. "We were doing better before we came into this junk," she said (only she used a different word than 'junk').
Reluctantly, I had to agree. That was the last day we attented that church (and brother, did we get the phone calls from them wondering why!). But we realized we'd made a serious mistake in ever starting up with them in the first place: we were letting others do our thinking for us, instead of finding out how God felt about it. So for the next six months we didn't go anywhere, but instead dove into God's Word like our lives depended on it (which, you know, it does).
Flash forward six months. By then we'd found a loving, full-gospel church that did holidays exactly as RC says they do them at his church: they sanctified them, and helped us to see them a new light.
That year at Christmas for the first time we really understood what the season was about, and when we exchanged our meager gifts with each other, that put us in remembrance of the One Who gave all.
All that to say, we reared our kids in just this way, and today both are saved and Spirit-filled. Matter of fact, our oldest son and his wife and kids are the mission field today.
Just some thoughts; nothing more.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:14:02 PM
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We do like Jesus did - celbrate Chanukkah.
I see no scripture in the gospels that HE ever celebrated christmas.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:20:00 PM
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Corne
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I've always thought chanukkah a lovely holiday, but it doesn't have any gospel containing songs sung in and to our culture on an annual basis. It doesn't really go out into all the world with the good news.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:20:07 PM
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rcjames
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ORIGINAL: mariamaria
I do celebrate christmas but am feeling more and more that I just do it for the family..The 25th December is not Jesus birth and how we justify it with the background it has I'll never know..I need to take a good hard look at why I am doing this and make a stand/choice
Well please post an authentic date for the birth of Christ, and I will certainly change the date that we observe it.
One can either keep Jesus as the reason for the season, or it can buy into the latest PC nonsense and excuses to not celebrate Christmas; praise God we live in a free country.
Thanks
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:21:21 PM
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rcjames
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We do like Jesus did - celbrate Chanukkah.
I see no scripture in the gospels that HE ever celebrated christmas.
Dave did the Jewish folks of the first century observe birthdays for family?
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:27:55 PM
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DaveW
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Not to my knowledge. That celebration seems to be a later invention.
They did keep track of age, however. A marriage was binding (according to the Mishnah tractate ketubot) if a young man and girl who were arranged by their parents had sex and both were over the age of "9 years and one day." Bar Mitzvah (son of the commandment) happened at age 12.
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:29:01 PM
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evry1needsgod
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I do celebrate christmas but am feeling more and more that I just do it for the family..The 25th December is not Jesus birth and how we justify it with the background it has I'll never know..I need to take a good hard look at why I am doing this and make a stand/choice
Well please post an authentic date for the birth of Christ, and I will certainly change the date that we observe it.
One can either keep Jesus as the reason for the season, or it can buy into the latest PC nonsense and excuses to not celebrate Christmas; praise God we live in a free country.
Thanks
RC
What does "PC" stand for?
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:32:06 PM
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ORIGINAL: evry1needsgod
What does "PC" stand for?
Poltical Correctness (or some call it spinelessness)
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 3:39:21 PM
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evry1needsgod
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ORIGINAL: evry1needsgod
What does "PC" stand for?
Poltical Correctness (or some call it spinelessness)
Oh, ok. Thanks!
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RE: Do you celebrate Christmas? - 11/2/2009 4:47:36 PM
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Think about what we would miss if those Christians who went before us had completely rejected Christmas.
Would we have those beautiful carols like, "Joy to the World" or "Emmanuel" playing from secular as well as sacred radio stations?
Some disciples came to Jesus to complain that they saw someone, that they did not know, casting out demons in the the name of Jesus and they had told the man to stop.
38 "Teacher," said John, "we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us." 39 "Do not stop him," Jesus said. "No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, 40 for whoever is not against us is for us.
In some sense, that is the lesson for us about Christmas. Even the non-believers for a few weeks out of the year hear about and focus on the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ. What does it matter that we don't know the precise day. There WAS a day. And, it was a very special day. Like the Tomb of the Unknow Soldier at Arlington, we may not have the name (or precise day); but, the honor and tribute paid are just as real.
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