{"id":1834,"date":"2011-12-20T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martianuswb.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2013-11-25T20:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:03:55","slug":"christmas-celebration-of-humbleness-and-servanthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/martianuswb.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"Christmas: celebration of humbleness and servanthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I think that we have to reform our paradigm about Christmas like how our Jesus thought about His own birthday. Now, we have a modern Christmas culture. When we celebrate Christmas, we do it by feast and party. Is that wrong? I can’t answer that, but I feel that we should look into the Bible about that.<\/p>\n

I do think that Christmas is about humbleness and servanthood. Our Jesus chose to leave the glorious heaven and born in a manger. Off course He could choose to be born in a great palace or at least in a house of a rich family. What do you think about that? Is it about humbleness and servanthood?<\/p>\n

Our Jesus also chose Joseph and Mary to be His earthly father and mother. Who were they? Joseph was only a carpenter, and Mary also did not knows come from a prosperous family. Mary also came from the town of Nazareth. Do you know that in the biblical time, Nazareth was known as a hometown of criminal people. People usually said, “Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?<\/em><\/span>” (John 1:46).<\/p>\n

One of my friend said that Jesus never want us to celebrate His birthday, and I agree with him. There is none verse in Bible tell us to celebrate Christmas. So, how will we celebrate Christmas this year?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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