Ok, after eleven semi-earth shattering mini-blogs, I am hard pressed to come up with a twelfth one. I could write about how our door-to-door Christmas Caroling has its roots in Wassailing (which wasn’t always the cleanest/nicest). Or I could write about how other traditional Christmas things have pagan roots (Yule Log, 8 Reindeer, mistletoe, etc). But instead, let me take this blog to encourage you to do something:
No matter what we read or hear, we need to check things out for ourselves and discover the truth. Many of us hear stories about the song the 12 Days of Christmas and the Candy Cane as both having Christian roots. But as we saw earlier in the blogs, if we check them out, we find out that it’s not true.
Sometimes throughout the year, we’ll get emails about things that may or may not be true. Again, we must check them out. Could I suggest that before we pass on an email that has a story that sounds too good to be true (positive or negative), that we check them out first? Websites such as snopes.com and wikipedia.com are good resources.
Although I am not opposed to coming up with creative ways to segue into witnessing and telling others about Jesus, we must not promote lies. If we promote a lie to promote the gospel; once the lie is exposed, the person may not believe the truth about Jesus. That would be a travesty.
(Here’s another great blog about Christmas origins: http://m.relevantmagazine.com/god/deeper-walk/features/27647-stealing-christmas-).
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