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Every Day and Every Season is for Christ

Writer's picture: Brian DoyleBrian Doyle

Holidays like Christmas and Easter often bring about the wrong and worst arguments, especially among Believers. I think well-intended people often hear compelling arguments and take up positions based upon if they are swayed in that direction, or not (as I have done). The thing is, we don’t just do this with Christmas, we divide along denominational boundaries, traditions, and “what my preacher says,” more often than not. I’ve recently written about growing into maturity so that we’re not tossed about by every wind of doctrine, and Christmas, especially, brings about the worst in us.

 

Loved ones, Jesus is worth celebrating. Some people may make compelling arguments that we’ve stolen Christmas, Easter, and other holidays from pagan religions (in the case of Christmas and Easter we have not, look up Thinking Biblically with Mike Winger, and Red Pen Logic with Mr. B for some great apologetics work on the subjects). Yet the fact is we are getting distracted from the main point of faith when we argue these issues. The point is always the Gospel. Christmas, even in the Gospel accounts of the birth of Christ, is always overshadowed by the Cross. That child in His coming is a fulfillment of the promises of God, that He would come to save us from our sins, and the first coming is something that should compel us to look forward to the return of the Risen and Reigning King, Jesus Christ. Christmas, Easter, and life in general is about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so this season, celebrate, but as you do, tell people the hope you have in Christ Jesus.

 

1 Peter 3:8-27

 

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For

 

“Whoever desires to love life

and see good days,

let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit;

let him turn away from evil and do good;

let him seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

and his ears are open to their prayer.

But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

 

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

 

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.




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