Some Christmas Ideas To Consider!
Some Christmas Ideas to consider!
We have been blessed this year that in the business of the season we were able to have a group of ladies come over one day last week and bring baked goods. And although we were able to taste test the goodies this was an effort to consider others & reach out to those whom need encouragement and whom need Christ this Christmas Season.
The ladies pre-baked their goodies and brought them over and were able to divvy up all of the cookies to make a combination platter for 5 neighbors each.
The next effort was husband and wife taking these treats to the neighbors, and I can say that we had several neighbors who were seemingly shocked by the gesture. We pray that this simply had an impact for Christ, that it is out of the overflow of our love for Christ love men and women. There was no bible verse painted on each cookie, or even a card with a verse yet we had our phone number in hopes that if there is a need that we might be called. We will follow up as ‘Evangelism’ is in the air for so many in the North East and we are hopeful that these are just relational building blocks for Kingdom conversations in the future. To give goodies and not give the gospel is not the Great C omission, thus we continue to pray for everyone here and in each of our neighborhoods that they may know Christ, and that we may be used. We were not the only ones to participate in this and thus the ladies were able to fellowship and have a good time contemplating their neighbors and neighborhoods and how to be intentional about sharing Jesus. Each one will present these things differently in their own way, yet with the common goal in mind to tell others about the good news.
These are not the only ideas this Christmas, that we’ve discussed either. There have been discussions of making phone calls to people whom you haven’t had time to communicate with, or people whom you’ve had conflict with in the past for the explicit purpose to share Christ, and seek reconciliation.
One of the discussions we had with our children in regards to Christmas was to encourage them to consider Jesus and what God our father gave by giving His son. It is from this sense of God’s courageous giving of His own son that we find in Acts 20:35, the verse regarding Jesus saying, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” This is a giving we have no context to understand entirely, those closest we get is to imagine giving up our children. This spectacular giving
Some other ideas were:
- * Sending Individual Christmas Cards with hand written notes telling the other party about God’s grace you see in their life, leaving a door open for prayer if they are ever in need.
- * It sounds old fashioned but consider Christmas Caroling. It only takes three or four people; a bass, tenor, alto, and soprano, to go Christmas caroling, and most carols draw attention to Christ. This can be an outreach in and of itself. Be intentional about who’s homes you go to etc and bring a gift for each house.
- * Write old friends who knew you before you were saved, and write to them your testimony. Tell them about what Jesus has done, but know that this also needs to ask the question about them, and where they are at spiritually. It’s not until you go from first person to second person in your testimony, that the Gospel question is being put to them in a personal way.
- * Invite someone who is spending Christmas alone to celebrate it with your family. Include him or her in family traditions and activities centered on Christ.
There are many other things one could do but the objective here more than any other time of year is to combat the inate selfishness which comes with this season of the year, in which our culture has made this about receiving, and replace this me receiving attitude with one of giving to others, and especially giving the gift of the Gospel to others!
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