What Does Christmas mean to You?

bluesman · Post by **bluesman** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:54 am

On our church's Christmas Eve service I have been asked to do a brief talk
on What Christmas means to Me.

So I was hoping to ask some of you What Christmas Means to You?

I will post later more of what it means to me.

Michael the Gospel Bluesman

Byblos · Post by **Byblos** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:50 am

bluesman wrote:On our church's Christmas Eve service I have been asked to do a brief talk
on What Christmas means to Me.

So I was hoping to ask some of you What Christmas Means to You?

I will post later more of what it means to me.

Michael the Gospel Bluesman

Hope.

And good to see you Mike. How are things?

In God We Trust · Post by **In God We Trust** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:05 pm

bluesman wrote:. . . What Christmas Means to You?

For me, more on commonality: Giving to others (without expecting to receive anything back).

bizzt · Post by **bizzt** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:21 pm

God's undeniable plan for us!

FFC · Post by **FFC** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:26 pm

Celebrating the birth of Christ and the joyous hope He brought to all mankind.

bluesman · Post by **bluesman** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:49 am

I know we all talk about giving which is true, but there is also the receiving
of the greatest gift that Jesus gave us.
All we have to do is accept it.
Many in this world keeping refusing it.

Michael
God Bless

godslanguage · Post by **godslanguage** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:19 am

Christmas: a divine holiday celebrating the light of the world (Jesus Christ) that is currently used for secular materiallistic purposes (ie: material things such as presents...)

FFC · Post by **FFC** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:23 am

godslanguage wrote:Christmas: a divine holiday celebrating the light of the world (Jesus Christ) that is currently used for secular materiallistic purposes (ie: material things such as presents...)

Sad but true.

jenna · Post by **jenna** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:07 pm

From your local resident "heretic". Ahh, maybe I better not say anything here...

Byblos · Post by **Byblos** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:25 am

jenwat3 wrote:From your local resident "heretic". Ahh, maybe I better not say anything here...

Jen, forget December 25th. What does the birth of Christ mean to you?

jenna · Post by **jenna** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:00 am

The birth of Christ means the birth of our Savior, naturally. I guess my main problem is that I feel too many seem to focus on WHEN He was born, instead of WHY. And the main point of His being born was for Him to die for us. I feel if we are going to celebrate a day, why not make it the day of His DEATH? But my original comment was meant to be a joke, not to be taken seriously.

zoegirl · Post by **zoegirl** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:28 am

jenwat3 wrote:The birth of Christ means the birth of our Savior, naturally. I guess my main problem is that I feel too many seem to focus on WHEN He was born, instead of WHY. And the main point of His being born was for Him to die for us. I feel if we are going to celebrate a day, why not make it the day of His DEATH? But my original comment was meant to be a joke, not to be taken seriously.

We do! Easter celebrates not only His death but more importantly His resurrection!!

WE're not obsessed with the time, but celebrate the fact that Christ humbld HImself for us. It merely is a time to come together and rejoice.

jenna · Post by **jenna** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:32 am

I knew you'd jump in here sometime, Zoe!

I won't go into detail here, but will leave it simply saying that Easter is also condemned by God Himself. But we are getting WAY too serious about a comment I meant as a joke.

oscarsiziba · Post by **oscarsiziba** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:43 pm

It means Christ's Mass-a Catholic Mass service branded with Christ's name to get all the world in the Catholic system and festivals

zoegirl · Post by **zoegirl** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:01 pm

Good grief!! Why in the world are we still fussing about this....!??!!

Whether or not these holidays CAME originally from pagan or Catholic (gasp!) traditions, why does this invalidate their meaning to us now?!?!?!?

We celebrate Christ's resurrection and power over sin....To be honest, I am happy that those early Christians DID take over those pagan holidays and change their meaning. I think it is an amazing thing that Christ in a culture can turn that culture around and change the meanings of the days and celebrations.

We celebrate Christ's incarnation now INSTEAD of some pagan superstition. What a wonderful indication of Christ's work and power throughout the people in history.

Amen....looking forward to celebrating the Lord's day every Sunday but I am especially looking forward to rejoicing with my fellow Christians on Easter Sunday...."HE IS RISEN!!"

I would love to sing Easter hymns every Sunday!!!

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