Christmas Hijacked?

There are so many articles and comments from secularists concerning Christmas and how one doesn’t need Jesus to celebrate the holiday.  It boggles my mind how anyone can even see the word CHRISTmas and think it’s okay to take Christ out of it.  All you are left with is MAS.  Perhaps that’s what the secularists should celebrate – but oh, wait, then that would mean they need to go to a church service or mass, right?  They definitely wouldn’t like that.  Back to square one.

 

The more I thought about it, the less sense it made.  I don’t see the secularists hijacking Hanukah or Ramadan, insisting their god be taken out of the holiday so all can celebrate.  I don’t see articles and comments desecrating the Jewish or Muslim holidays.  Only Christians seem to be the focus of hate.  Then it hit me.  Who hates us more than anything?  The enemy.  Yes, Satan and his followers want nothing more than to upstage, desecrate and ruin the day we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior.  Satan has slowly but surely lured us into his world of materialism – lights, music, shopping, gluttony – until even we Christians have been lulled into a stupor. 

 

Awaken sleeping Christians!  Take back Christmas by using the one weapon Satan does not possess -  LOVE!  Spread the love of Jesus through the land and the enemy will fail yet again.  He has no weapon in his arsenal that can overpower the love of Jesus.  Spread the Good News everywhere you go.  Remember what Christmas is really about.  And most of all, invite the unchurched to church so they can hear the Gospel. 

          The best thing we nonbelievers can do, in fact, is be honest about not celebrating the religious side of Christmas. Each Christmas and Easter, churches have to struggle to accommodate the extra crowds who show up for holiday services. While pews may be partially filled or even deserted on a Sunday over the summer, the holidays see a huge increase in attendance as the CEOs (Christmas and Easter Onlys) stop by. The problem is particularly pronounced in Catholic churches, as Christmas is a holy day of obligation. When holiday church attendance is motivated by guilt instead of a genuine state of religious worship, it creates headaches for everyone—and takes up valuable pew real estate. Torie Bosch, editor of Future Tense

This is Satan’s plan -  to keep as many nonbelievers out of the churches, away from Christians, deaf to the Good News, as he can.  Struggle to accommodate the extra crowds?  Those are Satan’s words, not ours – we love the crowds and the opportunity to share God’s Word.  As far as the CEO’s -  hey, it gives us at least two opportunities a year to reach them!  Praise God!!  Remember our battle is not with the flesh and blood of this world, but rather with the spirit forces of evil (Eph 6:12).

 

Articles by nonbelievers:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2008/12/no_reason_for_the_season.html

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/12/24/no_need_to_put_the_christ_in_christmas_if_you_re_not_religious_christmas.html

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865592614/Most-Americans-celebrate-Christmas-but-not-all-as-religious-holiday.html