*Posted by Winston Hottman
At the Baptist Press, Dr. Russell Moore explains how Christians should react to the so-called war on Christmas:
That ought not make us angry. It ought to instead give us an opportunity to understand how we look to our neighbors. They see us more in terms of our trivialities than in terms of the depths of meaning of Incarnation and blood atonement and the kingdom of Christ. They know something about Silent Night, just as they know something about Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. What they dont recognize is the cosmos-shifting mystery of Immanuel as God with Us.
All that means is that we need to spend more time lovingly engaging our neighbors with the sort of news that shocks angels and redirects stargazers and knocks sheep-herders to the ground. That it seems increasingly strange is all the better because it is strange. A gospel safe enough to sell beer and barbecue grills is a gospel too safe to make blessings flow, far as the curse is found.
Christmas, then, isnt about a fight for our right to party. Its a reminder that we, like every generation before us, live in a land of deep darkness (Isaiah 9:2). The darkness isnt overcome by sarcasm or personal offense or retaliatory insults. The light of Bethlehem shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not, cannot, will not overcome it.
And thats enough.
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