Christmas Evangelism

Photo by Victoria Pickering

Christmas is often a time of festive and overt evangelism: Cards, Church pageants, Christmas Carols, a life size nativity on the corner of Clearbrook and South Fraser Way...

Christmas is considered an opportunity by many Christians to put Jesus out there into the community as publicly as possible. Given the religious nature of the holiday there is, either perceived or real, a greater openness to talking about Jesus, coming to church and discussing spirituality in the larger community.  I am curious to what degree is there actually an increased openness in the average person and to what degree is it rather that because we feel a sense of permission we encounter the openness of people that was perhaps there all along...