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What Does It Mean to Have the Christmas Spirit? J.I. Packer’s Answer

By Filings on Tue, 12/09/25
Christian Living
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“We talk glibly of the ‘Christmas spirit,’ rarely meaning more by this than sentimental jollity on a family basis. But … it ought to mean the reproducing in human lives of the temper of him who for our sakes became poor at the first Christmas. And the Christmas spirit itself ought to be the mark of every Christian all the year round.” - JI Packer

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