Chuck Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship who has Breakpoint commentary today reminds us that Christmas is much more than the birth of a cuddly baby with shepherds and angels.
It was the beginning of the real war against evil and one where the baby Jesus will become the victor.
Colson says:
Too many pastors, music directors, and rank-and-file Christians miss
this point. We wander happily through the weeks of Advent, buying
gifts, trimming trees, throwing out Aunt Ethel’s fruitcake, and
listening to Eartha Kitt warble “Santa Baby.” All good fun, of course,
but what we often miss is the huge, central truth of Christmas: the
fact that the birth of Christ represents an invasion of Planet Earth—an
assault on territory occupied by a violent and vicious enemy, Satan.
Think about it for a moment. What is the kingdom of Satan? It’s a
kingdom that celebrates mass murder, sex trafficking, abortion,
pornography, addictions, and any other horror you might imagine.
But
we don’t hear much about this at Christmas. The problem, you see, is
we’ve slipped into classic American reductionism. We take a big idea,
like the Incarnation, and reduce it into something small enough to cope
with.
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