"I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1964.
12/07/2005
Disturbing Trend
I have noticed that some churches have decided to cancel all worship services on Christmas. The reason being that it is a family holiday?!?!? What better way to celebrate the birth of our Lord than by cancelling our corporate worship of Him.
Yeah, that is plain weird, though you know how we grew up in the CofC - "boycotting" Christmas because it's not "authorized" in scripture. We have cancelled Bible classes and the pm service that Sunday, but we'll have the regular 10am worship.
Yesterday on Fox & Friends a Baptist pastor was defending their cancellation with these choice, bound to be misunderstood words: "We only minister to our members, not outsiders, so for their sakes we cancelled worship that Sunday." Yeah, that's going to go over well!
Choosing to not have evening worship is a non-issue as far as I am concerned. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. Cancelling all worship services is uneccessary catering to the congregation and wrong. It is however where we are at culturally. So many people skip church if they have friends or family staying over.
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When you are appealing to teh 'felt needs' of the congregation, then it is about them, and not the Messiah!
Yeah, that is plain weird, though you know how we grew up in the CofC - "boycotting" Christmas because it's not "authorized" in scripture. We have cancelled Bible classes and the pm service that Sunday, but we'll have the regular 10am worship.
Yesterday on Fox & Friends a Baptist pastor was defending their cancellation with these choice, bound to be misunderstood words: "We only minister to our members, not outsiders, so for their sakes we cancelled worship that Sunday." Yeah, that's going to go over well!
Choosing to not have evening worship is a non-issue as far as I am concerned. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. Cancelling all worship services is uneccessary catering to the congregation and wrong. It is however where we are at culturally. So many people skip church if they have friends or family staying over.
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