These gifts are weird. I'm glad I'm not this guy's friend.
The twelfth day resembles the apostle's creed:
Where's Jesus' birth?
My point in bringing it up is to challenge you to celebrate his birthday by doing something extraordinary. Throw a birthday party instead of a Christmas party! If celebrating Jesus' birth isn't your "religious preference," then I'm sorry, but I'm going to ask you to bite the wall. We Protestants and even the Catholics made this holiday about Christ, and we'll be darned if it is about anything but Christ. Why am I so touchy about this? It's because it's Jesus' birthday. It is not a time to give a yearly donation or have a church service made up of taking offerings. It's a birthday party. It's not a guilt trip holiday where we beat ourselves up over the issues in our life- what a terrible party. For one day in the year, it is a time where EVERYBODY is invited to celebrate the birthday of a great guy, a wonderful Savior, and God in the flesh. So for one day in the year, every person you see, treat them like you were invited to the same birthday party and you just wanna have fun. That's what Christ would have wanted- a bunch of people genuinely loving each other. So give Christ the gift he wanted you to give in the first place- loving to live life!
1) I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. 2) I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. 3) He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. 4) He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell [the grave]. 5) On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. 6) He will come again to judge the living and the dead. 7) I believe in the Holy Spirit, 8) the holy catholic Church, 9) the communion of saints, 10) the forgiveness of sins, 11) the resurrection of the body, 12) and life everlasting.
Got all that? It is the end of the song and symbolizes the completion of Christ's ministry on earth. But the song is missing something. I think it's on purpose.
Got all that? It is the end of the song and symbolizes the completion of Christ's ministry on earth. But the song is missing something. I think it's on purpose.
Where's Jesus' birth?
Doesn't it strike you as odd that a song about the birth of Christ never talks about the actual birth of Christ? If so, then doesn't it strike you as odd that a holiday symbolizing the birth of Christ never talks about the actual birth of Christ, even in our own homes? We get caught up in the swing of the holiday, we overlook it. Far be it from me to turn this blog into a cliche' e-mail forward. But I think we celebrate it all wrong though. The fact the Jesus was born means something big to me- it means he was human!
My point in bringing it up is to challenge you to celebrate his birthday by doing something extraordinary. Throw a birthday party instead of a Christmas party! If celebrating Jesus' birth isn't your "religious preference," then I'm sorry, but I'm going to ask you to bite the wall. We Protestants and even the Catholics made this holiday about Christ, and we'll be darned if it is about anything but Christ. Why am I so touchy about this? It's because it's Jesus' birthday. It is not a time to give a yearly donation or have a church service made up of taking offerings. It's a birthday party. It's not a guilt trip holiday where we beat ourselves up over the issues in our life- what a terrible party. For one day in the year, it is a time where EVERYBODY is invited to celebrate the birthday of a great guy, a wonderful Savior, and God in the flesh. So for one day in the year, every person you see, treat them like you were invited to the same birthday party and you just wanna have fun. That's what Christ would have wanted- a bunch of people genuinely loving each other. So give Christ the gift he wanted you to give in the first place- loving to live life!
I pray you may be ACTIVE in sharing your faith so that you might know all the great things we have in Christ Jesus. -Philemon 6
KB
Merry Christmas!
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