We are planning a Christmas party this week for about 10 new believers here in the country. Most of them will be celebrating Christmas for the first time. So we’ve rented a place and now we are starting the difficult task of introducing Christmas to a people who have never enjoyed it’s American commercialized form. So here are our questions as we think about how to program and decorate for this party:
What do red and green really have to do with Christ’s birth? 
What do pretty lights have to do with Christ’s birth? (or this light-covered truck?)
What do green trees have to do with Christ’s birth?
Why would we give gifts to each other when it was Jesus who recieved the gifts?
Is there really any such thing as “Christmas music”? (for instance, was Silent Night written by the shepherds? or did the little drummer boy (who never existed) really have a bunch of sisters who used hand bells?)
Should we really even be celebrating this holiday now since there is NO evidence that suggests that Jesus was born in December?
So you can call me a humbug and a scrooge but we are trying to make this thing as pure and CHRISTIAN as possible.
