I just read “Christmas Is not Your Birthday: Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus” by Mike Slaughter. It should be required reading, especially for those people who only go to church on Christmas.
Over the years I’ve decided that I don’t like Christmas very much, (I actually prefer Easter), but couldn’t explain exactly why. What could possibly be wrong with celebrating the birth of the Savior? But for some reason something about it feels wrong. Slaughter provides some insight into what’s wrong with Christmas in America: it often has little to do with Jesus and a lot to do with us.
Slaughter debunks the myth of the Santa Claus Jesus, and forces us to take a hard look at the box in which we’ve tried to put God. Then he shows us, through Scripture what we should really be seeing when we look at Jesus.
And it doesn’t stop there; we get to look at what it means to be a follower of Jesus, the real reason for the celebration of His birth.
Slaughter gives ideas on how to celebrate in a way that honors God by serving and loving others rather than merely satisfying our materialistic desires. We get to look at what Jesus came to do, and it wasn’t just to give us a reason for a party.
As Christians we have already been given the most incredible gift. In response we should be sharing that love, proclaiming the good news and living our lives in a way that pleases Jesus. slaughter tells us why and shows us how.
I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for a review.
5/5
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