Quitting Christmas

• As with any sin, Christmas is difficult to stop and make appropriate adjustment. Christmas, along with other pagan holidays are only a habit, a bad habit, that those around us want us to believe we are being too nit-picky about. As the alcoholic around other alcoholics, and a drug addict around other users are ridiculed and mocked, if they announce they had enough and want to quit, so the person who stands up among friends who practice pagan holidays, and announces they quit, get the same treatment. Quitting pagan holidays has even divided families.  Source link

• If we fail to send out "gifts" our friends will think hard of us, probably deem us stingy and miserly. The honest course is to go to the trouble of notifying them - by letter if at a distance - that from now on you do not propose to send out any more "Christmas gifts" as such. Give your reasons. State plainly that you have been brought to see that "Christmas merrymaking" is entirely a thing OF THE WORLD, devoid of any Scriptural warrant; that it is a Romish institution, and now that you see this, you dare no longer have any fellowship with it (Eph. 5:11); that you are the Lord's "free man" (1 Cor. 7:22), and therefore you refuse to be in bondage to a costly custom imposed by the world.  Source link