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Sleigh bells ring! Are you listening? Those sleigh bells are a death knell for the meaning behind Christmas. Have we lost Christ amongst our consumerism? I know what some people might say when they read this, "Bah-humbug! Stop with your scrooge-esque little rant and lighten up!"
So is there a problem? The people over at advent conspiracy seem to think so!
"Advent Conspiracy is an international movement restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshipping Jesus through compassion, not consumption.
Christ tends to get overlooked at Christmas. Let’s be honest. December comes and you think, “OK, this is the year.” This time you’ll swear you’ll slow down and take it all in. Make the most with family. Help the needy. Zero in on what it really means to be a Christ follower during this holy season.
What if you could inspire your church, your family and yourself to avoid being consumed by commercialism this Christmas?"
I'd like to know what you think about the advent conspiracy...
Feel free to post below!
2 Responses to “Christmas! Resist the conspiracy...”
January 11th, 2008 at 07:50 PM How does one post comments or send ideas and other pearls of wisdom to this site? Now that is a conspiracy....
January 14th, 2008 at 10:30 AM Colin, there are a number of ways to do this. You can email thoughts to the church email address or you can comment on individual articles. Comments are not allowed for all articles, they have to be turned on for that article by the author. Also there is usually a limited timescale for posting a comment. Once the article is a month old comments are usually turned off, no more are allowed. Also, each comment that is posted is approved prior to being displayed on the website. If you have any further questions let us know.
Have your say. Let us know what you think.
Note: Comments will go through a spam filter before being displayed, so they wont appear beside the article for a while. Also, the author of the article will decide if comments are allowed, so you can't 'Have your say' on every article. After a month(approx.) no further comments are allowed.