Christmas Sunday Service Cancelled?

Did you ever stop to think that maybe the pastors and their families would actually like to spend some time with their extended family for Christmas?

 

Be thankful you didn't live in Geneva then. There Christmas was always on Sunday. If it didn't happen to fall on a Sunday, it was moved to one anyway.

 

Can't think of a better way to honor Christ then to spend it at home with your family. After all God created the family before he did the church.

 

This is one of the reasons we'll not be having services on Sunday. We'll have 4 Christmas Eve services instead.

Being in a church building is not required for worship. My family and extended family gathering together and reading the Bible, praying and remembering why we celebrate Christmas is worship as well.

 

We will be having the am service at normal time without SS. Many people will be out of town visiting their families on Christmas day. The few of us left here will be there.

 

For someone to make a big deal out of missing church on Christmas Day is akin to legalism. I wonder how many of these same people would quit their job because their boss required them to work on Sunday once in a while.

 

I love to go to church on Christmas day!

We are having the one combined service at 10:30 like so many others. We also do Christmas Eve services.

 

We're talking about a service in the morning. That's what you sign up for in ministry. It's not like you're giving up dawn til dusk.

I take your point, but I don't think the two are at odds. In fact, Christmas is a historical celebration in the Church.

Thanksgiving is not a religious, sacred, or liturgical holiday. Christmas, at least as it should be celebrated, is.

I don't think anyone is making a big deal out of missing it. I think they're making a big deal of a congregation not even offering it.

 

No, I am saying that anyone who would want to voluntarily miss church has a low view of the majesty of God in corporate worship. I understand people who must work through acts of necessity or mercy. However, someone who thinks that they can celebrate Christmas, the child in the manger, better apart from the church is fooling themself.

 

Did this apply when you military service or job required you to miss services?

 

Thats OK, all the Catholics will be going to Church & wondering why we dont go....then they will decide.....:laugh: Plus, perhaps some of our own may get curious about ......

 

Thanks for the clarification. I thought the uproar was about not having the usual ss, morning worship, and evening worship.

Canceling or combining services doesn't bother me so much. Many churches have extra services anyway for plays, cantatas, or for extra outreach. For example, we're just having morning worship on Christmas. BUT we're having a special "extra" service on another night before that.

Cancelling "church services" for Christmas in my book is not a big hairy deal. My family reads the nativity story and prays as a special family worship in our home. Sometimes I think my kids get MORE out of that approach than just sitting in a pew. Now, cancelling or combining services to accomodate the Super Bowl or bringing in a big screen tv at church to have a devotional during halftime bothers me to no end.

 

We're having one Christmas Eve service and regular worship services Christmas Day, but no SS. All three services will be the same and approx. 1 hour long, with the exception of candlelight in the evening service. We don't have a Sunday p.m. service to cancel.