The spokesperson for the group had this to say about their decision to run the campaign at Christmas: "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."
I think the church needs to respond to his statement, but probably not the way many churches will. I believe he's right. A lot of people are lonely during the holiday season. But the church has a message of hope and so we need to get that message out there, not to counter an anti-religious group's campaign but because the second greatest commandment given to us by Christ is "love your neighbor as yourself."
With the help of one of our pastors, our church put together it's own message for the holiday season to help share the message of hope with lonely people.
3 comments:
Yeah, i'd have to agree. I was very lonely last year in christmas. No friends, no visitation, no.. well, everything, even though my birthday was on dec 28th.
What the heck is wrong with people?
Jonathan,
Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry that you had that kind of experience last year. I certainly hope this season is much better.
I hope our church can help.
Mickey and Ruth Garverick visited us this weekend while they were singing in town for the National Christian Choir. They had asked me about the church's banners (they really liked the Cowboys fan one :) ) and I told them about this on your blog. I guess they've either seen or heard about those new posters around on the side of buses.
I hope people respond. There's a lot of God's love at FCBC to share.
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