{"id":2847,"date":"2013-11-28T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2013-11-28T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T01:35:29","slug":"how-to-make-the-most-of-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/how-to-make-the-most-of-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make the Most of Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Christian’s light supposed to shine on black Friday?<\/p>\n

What Bible principles or concepts could guide us as we launch out into the pre-dawn darkness in twelve hours or less? <\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t push in front of others.<\/strong> “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves”<\/em> (Philippians 2:3).<\/li>\n
  2. Give up the good deal you got so someone else can have it.<\/strong> “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise”<\/em> (Luke 6:31).<\/li>\n
  3. Don’t go in the red by spending a bunch of green you don’t have.<\/strong> “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender”<\/em> (Proverbs 22:7).<\/li>\n
  4. Look out for the other person.<\/strong> “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others”<\/em> (Philippians 2:4).<\/li>\n
  5. Remember the needy for good.<\/strong> “Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble”<\/em> (Psalm 41:7).<\/li>\n
  6. Keep your heart in the right place.<\/strong> “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”<\/em> (Matthew 6:21).<\/li>\n
  7. Show divine love to those around you.<\/strong> “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”<\/em> (Galatians 5:14).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Wow! I just as well stay home! \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

    And I didn’t even get to “be content”<\/em><\/a> and “treasures in heaven”<\/em><\/a> and “thou shalt not covet”<\/em><\/a> and a few others.<\/p>\n

    Could it be that Gospel concepts and principles aren’t meant for black Friday? And that imagining such applicability ranges dangerously into pie-in-the-sky radicalness?<\/p>\n

    Come to think of it, I could let those principles guide me on the other 300+ non-Sunday, money-spending days of the year.<\/p>\n

    Or maybe not. What do you say?<\/b><\/p>\n

    PS: This pre-dates any portion of my life lived today. I’ve been thinking about this for a few days. Alas, I let it slide til it’s too late for this year. Oh, and lest you think otherwise<\/span>, I’m not staying home from black Friday sales for any pious or noble or godly reasons. \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Biblical principles for Christians to employ on Black Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1046,534],"tags":[894,880,416],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-featured","category-todays-thought","tag-inspirational","tag-life-lessons","tag-morality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-JV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}