Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
From John Clayton
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
All holidays can be good times.
We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.
Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
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