Christmas and the workplace

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s Christmastime.It isn’t just in your neighborhood, with your neighbor’s lights shining in your eyes at night.

It isn’t just in the mall, splashed with gory colors and tinsel.

It isn’t just in every commercial or ad or pitch to buy a product.

It’s also Christmastime in your workplace. In many workplaces, the may CALL it something else — Holiday Season, Winter Season, Solstice etc. — but we all know its Christmas. The breakroom is full of cookies. Cubicles are lit. The breaks get a little longer. The Christmas tunes on the radio play a little louder.

The workplace during Christmas is a great time to actually talk about the reason and need for Jesus. I won’t get into whether the present holiday even remotely hints at a relationship with the Savior. But it does give you reason, an excuse if you will, to talk about the Christ child. Many people are open to talk about such things during this time of year. And you can share the Savior without actually worshipping a man-made holiday.

Here are some questions that might open up a spiritual dialogue.
** “What did you as child in your home during Christmas?”
** “What does Christmas mean to you? — what should it mean?”
** “I think the modern Christmas takes away from the original meaning. What do you think?”
** “If Jesus were in charge of the holiday, what he do?”
** “If he were here right now, what would you do?”

I have an approach to this time of year. Let the pagans have their holiday! If they want Rudolph and Frosty, plastic Santas and silly songs, they can have it! Why fret? Why fuss? I’ll have my own holiday — the recognition and celebration of a Savior who came to man. My own holiday is the celebration of a child who grow to be a man who would eventually die for me. The birth cannot be celebrated without the death and resurrection. When Peter and Paul preached in the first century, there was no Christmas story. Instead, they spoke about ‘the death and resurrection of Jesus.”

So they can have their holiday. And I’ll have mine. And I want as many as my coworkers as possible to share this place with me.

Share your thoughts about Christmastime in your workplace below——–

** David Rupert