Have Christians Sold Out Christmas?

Allen Frederick

clipped from www.assistnews.net

So, let me ask the same question I asked years ago: “Why are we bowing to secular pressure and forgetting how the Church originally celebrated the holiday?
If the job of a Christian is to “witness” then why are we witnessing at the wrong time.
Suppose we were to celebrate Christmas during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
we in the Christian world don’t have a leg to stand on when we blast the secular world for “stealing Christmas.” I said that, instead of letting it be stolen, we had actually GIVEN away the holiday and failed to fight for its original meaning. I further suggested that if one of the jobs of a Christian (particularly an evangelical Christian) was to “witness” the faith, then most of us are doing a lousy job of using Christmas as a time to not only demonstrate our faith, but to show others that we are believers.
f we held our Christmas concerts on the 6th or 7th Day of Christmas we would be right in time with the season, but viewed as kooks

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