Happy Holidays
Yeah, I said it!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! And here’s why I said it, because it doesn’t matter. I don’t really keep up with a lot of news, but being a minister I hear a lot about retail stores not using the term “Merry Christmas” but instead using “Happy Holidays”. Here’s my take on this… 1st, why wouldn’t a retail store want to make sure it wasn’t ignoring a portion of their customers. They’re in business to make money. Doesn’t matter if that money comes from a Jew, an atheist, a Buddhist, or even a Muslim, it’s all green! So from a business perspective, it makes sense. 2nd, as Christians when will stop being surprised to find out we’re living in a secular world. We do not live in a Christian society! As much as we’d all like to think so, we don’t! If anything I can see an upside to all this. I won’t use the term “persecution” because as American Christians we have no idea what the word means, but I will say it’s about time our faith became a little inconvenient. We as the American church...