Christians & Holidays

Many of Our Holidays Have a Very Complicated History

To Simply Claim a Holiday is Paganistic is Really Oversimplifying

Many of Them Have Gone Through Changes Over Time

Religions, Traditions, and Cultures Impact the Meaning of Holidays

No One Consistently Rejects All that Has Pagan Origins

The Days of the Week are Named After Pagan Gods

Christians for the Past 2000 Years Have Taken Pagan Things and Twisted Them to Honor Jesus

Purim was a Day the Jews Created to Celebrate Their Deliverance From the Persian Attack

During the Times of the Maccabees, the Celebration of Honnakuh was Created

Jesus Went to the Temple During that Holiday

Paul Redeemed Things From the Pagan World

Paul Went to the Areopogus and Spoke to Them About One of Their Gods

But He Changed the Meaning of this God to the One True God

Many of the Apostolic Fathers Did This

They Took Pagan Holidays and Transformed Them into Days to Celebrate Jesus

Romans 14 - if people want to celebrate Christmas and Easter and Praise Jesus on Those Occasions, Let Them

If it Violates Your Conscience Because You Feel Like There is Paganism Involved, Don’t Celebrate

But There’s a Problem I Have Seen Growing Up That Needs to Be Addressed

Many Christians are So Afraid of Appearing Demoninational, That We Avoid Jesus When Christmas and Easter Role Around

That is a Problem

Jesus Should Never Be Avoided in a Christian’s Life

Jesus is Our Life

It Doesn’t Matter if You or Anyone Else Believes Jesus was Born On December 25th or Not

If the World is Talking About the Messiah, Please Do Not Discourage That!

I’m Not Advocating for or Against Celebrating Holidays in a Religious Way

I’m Advocating for Christians Remaining Christ Focused Everyday, Regardless of the Day

I’m Advocating for Christians to Stop Telling Others to Stop Thinking About Jesus On Certain Days of the Year

I’m Advocating for Christians to Use These Amazing Times of Year When People are Thinking About Jesus…

When Our Extremely Secular Society Sings “Christ Our Savior is Born”…

To Talk About and Celebrate Jesus Alongside Them

IDC if You Celebrate the Holiday or Not

Celebrate Jesus!

This May Be the One Opportunity You Have to Have a Conversation About Jesus and His Kingdom With Someone

Use it!

It Breaks My Heart When Christians Fight and Divide Over Some of the Most Trivial Matters

Romans 14 (NASB95)

Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.

One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.

The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.

He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.

For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;

for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For it is written,

“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,

And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.

Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Paul was Seeking to Help Jewish and Gentile Christians Get Along in the Church as a Family

Some Came to the Well-Reasoned Conclusion that Certain Holidays Should Be Celebrated

Others Came to the Well-Reasoned Conclusion that Certain Holidays Should Not Be Celebrated\

They Were Told Not to Look Down On Each Other or Judge Each Other

There’s Nothing Wrong with Celebrating the Birth of Jesus on Christmas

There’s Nothing Wrong with Celebrating Jesus’ Resurrection On Easter