{"id":28765,"date":"2020-12-22T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=28765"},"modified":"2020-12-23T06:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:53:34","slug":"because-of-christmas-linus-drops-his-blanketwill-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=28765","title":{"rendered":"Because of Christmas, Linus Drops His Blanket\u2026Will We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Linus-Drops-His-Blanket-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over a dozen years while we lived in Northwest Indiana, we would host a Christmas Eve party with three dozen extended family members and friends. We all enjoyed great food, fun games, Christmas-themed Charades, and our White Elephant Gift Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But the evening was never complete until we all read Luke 2:8-14 together. And then we would always watch a brief clip of <em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. It\u2019s the classic scene where Charlie Brown asks:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIsn\u2019t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Linus responds with the best-ever answer to that question as he recites Luke 2:8-14.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Did You Notice?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In watching and re-watching that scene for decades, I missed an incredibly poignant moment. Right in the middle of reciting Luke 2:8-14, <em>Linus drops his blanket<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If Charlie Brown is best known for his striped shirt, then Linus is most associated with his ever-present security blanket. To no avail, his friends try to separate Linus from his blanket. But he refuses to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Until this moment when Linus drops his blanket.<\/p>\n<p>And the specific moment? Linus drops his blanket as he shares the words, \u201cFear not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s crystal clear what Charles Schulze was saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020&#8211;the Year of Fear&#8211;Like Linus, Let&#8217;s Drop Our Blanket. Because of the Birth of Jesus, Let&#8217;s &#8220;Fear Not!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Because of Christmas, Linus Drops His Blanket\u2026Will We? appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3344,1143,3343],"class_list":["post-28765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-charlie-browns","tag-christmas","tag-linus","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Linus-Drops-His-Blanket-1-1.jpg?fit=960%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28773,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765\/revisions\/28773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}