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From USAToday:
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Because Christmas falls on Sunday this year, some churches are opting to close that day so that families can spend the morning together at home.
Among the nation’s top 20 largest Protestant churches — as ranked by Outreach Magazine — three will be closed on Christmas, and 10 will be having only one service, The Tennessean reports.
LifeChurch.tv, an Oklahoma-based megachurch with 14 locations in five states, says it will be closed on Christmas, but it plans to hold Christmas Eve services.
In Atlanta, First Baptist Church will hold morning services on Christmas Eve but close on Sunday.
Life Research, based in Nashville, says its national survey of Protestant churches found that 91% would hold at least one service Christmas morning, while about 9% will not worship on Sunday at all. Some plan Christmas Eve services instead.
“Having church on Christmas Day when it falls on a Sunday seems as if it would be as much of a given as having Thanksgiving on a Thursday, but this has been an issue of discussion and contention in recent years,” says Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research. “Also, just because an overwhelming majority of pastors think that way doesn’t mean those in their congregations necessarily share their perspective.”
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4 responses to “Churches are Seriously Considering No Church on CHRISTMAS SUNDAY?!”
To quote my wife this is just sacrilegious!!! I understand consolidating services because families may be traveling but to not have church on the day that Christ was born?? Mo, what do you think/
I think there is no reason to not have service on Christmas Sunday. There is no good reason not to do so under any circumstances. That’s just me. Otherwise it negates the purpose of Christianity.
At first I thought the same thing too…but then I had a change of heart. First, at my church, Easter and Christmas services are WAY overcrowded. Of course this is a good thing, but often times regular members who come every week are displaced by the throngs of people attending for their bi-annual “come home to Jesus” trip to church. As such, my church offered multiple services on both Friday and Saturday–6 in total. Second, let’s face it, the family unit is falling apart. Pastor can say “go be home with your family,” but if it’s on Christmas Eve or something, 9 times out of ten, someone’s running last minute trips to the store for Christmas dinner, another person is out finishing up the Christmas present shopping, and someone else is out at a holiday gathering. but on Christmas? Little is open. There really is a good chance a family will get that uninterrupted, much-needed quality time together as a family unit. For these reasons, I had a change of heart from my initial shock at the thought.
And lastly…does it really matter what day the actual Christmas service is held? We aren’t all walking around still believing that Jesus was for sure born on December 25, are we? Isn’t the important point that the spirit of the season is remembered and practiced and passed on to our children? Let’s not get all caught up on made-up dates. (And funny if we do…we don’t bat an eye at the issue for Easter. And we sure don’t mind taking that extra weekday off from work when the holiday falls on a weekend.)
Just offering a different viewpoint.
I’ll just keep it simple. If you can’t “celebrate” Christmas on whatever is deemed as “Christmas Day”…what is then the point?
I mean, let’s have communion on the 3rd Sunday instead of the first. The point of it all is focus on a singular day of celebration. And if that singular day somehow is inconvenient for the houses of worship, then I would submit that all of this is pointless.
Can you really call yourself “Christian” and have no reverence for “Christmas?”