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Rebooting Christmas (Part 1) - A Christ-Focused Christmas

Rebooting Christmas (Part 2) - Jesus, The Reason We Celebrate

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript

References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete.

Jesus: the Reason We Celebrate

Guest: Barbara Rainey

From the series: Rebooting Christmas (Day 2 of 2)

Air date: November 27, 2012

Bob: Are we getting Christmas right? Barbara Rainey says, “Maybe not.”

Barbara: So many people, even if they don’t know Christ, they do know that something is not right with the way we celebrate Christmas; they do know that the commercialism and the focus on all the stuff is wrong; they know it’s too much; and they don’t know why, and they don’t know what it is. So I think that it would be very easy to approach a neighbor and say, “We’re really trying, in our family, to make the focus of Christmas about what it’s all about.”
I think people will get it even if they don’t totally understand it; because I think we all know that it’s—the whole system is not quite right.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, November 27th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. The Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God. What if your Christmas tree did the same thing? We’ll talk about that today.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition. I almost didn’t expect to see you here today. I thought your wife, Barbara, would be here again, as she is; but I thought maybe you’d still be home unpacking boxes.

Dennis: Pulling boxes out of the attic, all the ornaments, all the Christmas trappings.

Bob: ‘Tis the week to decorate the house.

Dennis: Yes, it is.

Barbara: Yes, except that he doesn’t unpack the boxes; he merely carries them into the house.

Bob: And then goes and turns on the game.

Dennis: No, no, that’s not true. (Laughter) We used to have—we used to have some kids to help her; but now, it’s just us. We have—

Bob: Now, it’s the old mule. (Laughter) Get the old mule out.

Dennis: As my mom used to say, “The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be.” (Laughter) But it is a fun time of the year, and all these trappings of Christmas all carry meaning with them; and that’s really what we wanted to talk with listeners about today—is the meaning of Christmas and helping you truly celebrate the reason for the season.

Bob: One of the reasons that Barbara is here with us is because of some work she’s been doing over the last several months on developing resources for families to use at Christmas. I’m wondering, looking at some of these resources—our listeners know that Thanksgiving has always been your favorite holiday. I’m just wondering if Christmas is starting to edge in on the competition here.

Barbara: Well, I wouldn’t say it’s edging in on the competition as far as the experience. I still love Thanksgiving because our family is usually around; but I love Christmas because—all of us love Christmas. I loved Christmas as a child and couldn’t wait for Christmas, as a child growing up.

I remember—the interesting memory that I have, or one of the interesting memories that I have as a child, is I remember watching friends of mine who were Catholic who would go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve; and I used to think, “What do they do? What are they learning? What are they hearing? What am I missing out on?”—because there was something that said to me, “That was meaningful,” and I wanted something meaningful in our Christmas celebration.

We didn’t do a lot as a family, and we didn’t talk about it a lot. I remember as a kid longing for that. I knew there was more to the Christmas celebration that we had in my house growing up as a child than there was. I mean I kept looking at these other people thinking, “What am I missing? What else should there be?”

Bob: It’s interesting as you mention that. I’m thinking back to Christmas as a child where the focus of Christmas on Jesus really only came through in carols we sang or heard on the stereo—

Dennis: Yes, right.

Bob: —or what might get talked about in church.

Barbara: Exactly.

Bob: Other than that, it was mostly presents—that was what I was locked in on—

Barbara: Yes, me too.

Bob: —or decorations or activities or parties—whatever was going on. I don’t remember a whole lot of spiritual focus in our house growing up. Was there much in yours?
Dennis: Not a lot. In fact, one of the highlights of our Christmas was—and some of our listeners will find this kind of odd—but we used to wrap joke packages.

My mom and I would go upstairs to kind of Santa’s workshop. And on Christmas Eve, my mom and I would get so tickled, we would have tears streaming down our faces at these really dumb gifts that we were wrapping for various members of the family that we would put under the tree. We would not put a “To: Gary,” my brother, “From: Dennis”. It wouldn’t have any from. It would say, “From: Santa.”

It was just having fun, but I longed—just like Barbara was talking about—I really longed for those more spiritual moments that you would see sometimes in the movies that surrounded Christmas that did have the carols, the Christmas carols that were being sung about Christ.

I know when we became parents, one of the things that we talked a great deal about was how could we as a mom and dad with our six children make Christmas focused upon the birthday celebration of the King of kings and Lord of lords, how God became flesh and dwelt among us. I’d have to say, Bob, I would give Barbara and me probably a C-minus, maybe a D-plus. We just didn’t find a lot of good ways to do that.

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Rebooting Christmas (Part 1) - A Christ-Focused Christmas

Rebooting Christmas (Part 2) - Jesus, The Reason We Celebrate

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript

References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete.

Jesus: the Reason We Celebrate

Guest: Barbara Rainey

From the series: Rebooting Christmas (Day 2 of 2)

Air date: November 27, 2012

Bob: Are we getting Christmas right? Barbara Rainey says, “Maybe not.”

Barbara: So many people, even if they don’t know Christ, they do know that something is not right with the way we celebrate Christmas; they do know that the commercialism and the focus on all the stuff is wrong; they know it’s too much; and they don’t know why, and they don’t know what it is. So I think that it would be very easy to approach a neighbor and say, “We’re really trying, in our family, to make the focus of Christmas about what it’s all about.”
I think people will get it even if they don’t totally understand it; because I think we all know that it’s—the whole system is not quite right.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, November 27th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. The Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God. What if your Christmas tree did the same thing? We’ll talk about that today.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition. I almost didn’t expect to see you here today. I thought your wife, Barbara, would be here again, as she is; but I thought maybe you’d still be home unpacking boxes.

Dennis: Pulling boxes out of the attic, all the ornaments, all the Christmas trappings.

Bob: ‘Tis the week to decorate the house.

Dennis: Yes, it is.

Barbara: Yes, except that he doesn’t unpack the boxes; he merely carries them into the house.

Bob: And then goes and turns on the game.

Dennis: No, no, that’s not true. (Laughter) We used to have—we used to have some kids to help her; but now, it’s just us. We have—

Bob: Now, it’s the old mule. (Laughter) Get the old mule out.

Dennis: As my mom used to say, “The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be.” (Laughter) But it is a fun time of the year, and all these trappings of Christmas all carry meaning with them; and that’s really what we wanted to talk with listeners about today—is the meaning of Christmas and helping you truly celebrate the reason for the season.

Bob: One of the reasons that Barbara is here with us is because of some work she’s been doing over the last several months on developing resources for families to use at Christmas. I’m wondering, looking at some of these resources—our listeners know that Thanksgiving has always been your favorite holiday. I’m just wondering if Christmas is starting to edge in on the competition here.

Barbara: Well, I wouldn’t say it’s edging in on the competition as far as the experience. I still love Thanksgiving because our family is usually around; but I love Christmas because—all of us love Christmas. I loved Christmas as a child and couldn’t wait for Christmas, as a child growing up.

I remember—the interesting memory that I have, or one of the interesting memories that I have as a child, is I remember watching friends of mine who were Catholic who would go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve; and I used to think, “What do they do? What are they learning? What are they hearing? What am I missing out on?”—because there was something that said to me, “That was meaningful,” and I wanted something meaningful in our Christmas celebration.

We didn’t do a lot as a family, and we didn’t talk about it a lot. I remember as a kid longing for that. I knew there was more to the Christmas celebration that we had in my house growing up as a child than there was. I mean I kept looking at these other people thinking, “What am I missing? What else should there be?”

Bob: It’s interesting as you mention that. I’m thinking back to Christmas as a child where the focus of Christmas on Jesus really only came through in carols we sang or heard on the stereo—

Dennis: Yes, right.

Bob: —or what might get talked about in church.

Barbara: Exactly.

Bob: Other than that, it was mostly presents—that was what I was locked in on—

Barbara: Yes, me too.

Bob: —or decorations or activities or parties—whatever was going on. I don’t remember a whole lot of spiritual focus in our house growing up. Was there much in yours?
Dennis: Not a lot. In fact, one of the highlights of our Christmas was—and some of our listeners will find this kind of odd—but we used to wrap joke packages.

My mom and I would go upstairs to kind of Santa’s workshop. And on Christmas Eve, my mom and I would get so tickled, we would have tears streaming down our faces at these really dumb gifts that we were wrapping for various members of the family that we would put under the tree. We would not put a “To: Gary,” my brother, “From: Dennis”. It wouldn’t have any from. It would say, “From: Santa.”

It was just having fun, but I longed—just like Barbara was talking about—I really longed for those more spiritual moments that you would see sometimes in the movies that surrounded Christmas that did have the carols, the Christmas carols that were being sung about Christ.

I know when we became parents, one of the things that we talked a great deal about was how could we as a mom and dad with our six children make Christmas focused upon the birthday celebration of the King of kings and Lord of lords, how God became flesh and dwelt among us. I’d have to say, Bob, I would give Barbara and me probably a C-minus, maybe a D-plus. We just didn’t find a lot of good ways to do that.

One of the things we had was a nativity set made of olive wood tha...

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