Intrigued by the movement Dick mentioned in his sermon? Check out their website. Sure, it's only May, but why not start thinking about how THIS Christmas can be different.
The Advent Conspiracy is an international movement restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshipping Jesus through compassion, not consumption. Their four pronged agenda is to worship more, spend less, give more and love all.
Want to read more? Check out the website.
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to encourage and inspire Christ-followers toward simpler living
2 comments:
I'm totally down with this movement and these ideas!
Every year, my mom and I have the same conversation about Christmas gifts...we NEED nothing...we don't want to just give people a bunch of junk for which they have no use. So we usually resort to forcing everyone to make a wish list.
But if you choose to put your gift money towards clean drinking water or feeding the poor, you are making SUCH a bigger difference than buying me a winter hat.
I'm totally going this route this year :)
I like these ideas too, though I still like receiving things as gifts.. so it's a hard balance that I'll probably have to conciously work through this winter. I think it's necessary and valuable, though, to at least scale back our purchases.
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