Some powerful words from J.I. Packer's Knowing God,
It is our shame and disgrace today that so many Christians - I will be more specific: so many of the soundest and most orthodox Christians - go through this world in the spirit of the priest and the Levite in our Lord's parable, seeing human needs all around them, but (after a pious wish, and perhaps a prayer, that God might meet them) averting their eyes, and passing by on the other side. That is not the Christmas spirit. Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves.
Indeed, during this "Holiday Season", we would do well to make a concerted effort to help those in need, whether individually or through para-church organizations.
Consider some of the following organizations, as you prepare your house and hearts for Christmas:
- The Sheepfold (home for battered women and children)
- Latin America ChildCare
- Project Rescue
- Stand to Reason
- Reasons to Believe
- Grace Elliott Prenatal Clinic
And for those of you who love Christmas... the true meaning of Christmas. Please visit the site Loving Christmas, from True Grit / Intellectuelle author Ilona. It's a site loaded with a plethora of ideas, links, crafts, etc., all related to the Advent season.
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