{"id":49,"date":"2013-07-24T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:20:45","slug":"10-ways-to-share-my-faith-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Share my Faith this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><span itemprop=\"description\"><p>1. Cards<br \/>\nSend Christian cards! Send cards with a nativity picture and a Christmas message inside.<br \/>\n2. Presents<br \/>\nGive Christian books, videos or DVDs. The best selling celebrity calendar is of Cliff Richard! This year again we will have \u201cMore to Christmas\u201d DVD cards from Viz-a-Viz.<br \/>\n3. \u201cPraying for you\u201d cards<br \/>\nGod answers prayer! It is good for us to offer to pray for our friends and neighbours and our \u201cPraying for you\u201d cards are an easy way to do help us to do this.<br \/>\n4. Decorations<br \/>\nMake yours Christian! We will have some Christian posters to put in windows. Wear a badge or piece of jewellery or use a car sticker to \u201cadvertise\u201d that you are a Christian.<br \/>\n5. Party time<br \/>\nHospitality does not have to mean a dinner party. There is no better time than Christmas to break the ice by inviting neighbours over for coffee and mince pies some time. Tis the season to be jolly. Home Groups could organise an event together to invite neighbours and friends.<br \/>\n6. Carol singing<br \/>\n\u201cFor many people, carols conjure up the almost forgotten magical, white Christmases of our childhood, exciting presents and a simple belief in the mystery of Christmas.\u201d Start a conversation about Jesus with the words of well-known carols. \u201cHark! The herald angels sing: \u2018Glory to the new-born King! Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!\u2019<br \/>\n7. It\u2019s CHRISTmas<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not X-mas, it\u2019s CHRISTmas! There wouldn\u2019t be a Christmas without Christ \u2013 so let\u2019s make sure we keep Christ at the centre of Christmas ourselves.<br \/>\n8. Think of others<br \/>\nThink about other people this Christmas. Neighbours are allowed to be nice to each other at Christmas!<br \/>\n9. Talk about Jesus<br \/>\nGossip the gospel &#8211; taking every opportunity to tell people the real meaning of Christmas.<br \/>\nTry to find something better to say to everybody than \u201cHappy Christmas\u201d. Try \u201cPeace be with you\u201d or \u201cGod Bless you this Christmas time!\u201d You\u2019re allowed to be religious! It\u2019s Christmas!<br \/>\n10. Pray<br \/>\nAlways talk to God about your friends before you talk to your friends about God. Pray for opportunities to talk about Jesus this Christmas. <\/p>\n<p>The world has forgotten the real meaning of Christmas. Shops and restaurants and television have hijacked Christmas. Time to plan ahead. Let\u2019s do our best to reclaim this Christmas for Christ!<\/p>\n<span><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\"><span itemprop=\"description\">1. Cards Send Christian cards! Send cards with a nativity picture and a Christmas message inside. 2. Presents Give Christian books, videos or DVDs. The&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p btn-align-center\"><a class=\"blue zoom-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/?p=49\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}