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Closed For Christmas - Hardly

December 9, 2005 |

There has been so much talk about churches closing for Christmas that I had to jot down a few brief comments.

The issues raised about not many people coming or trouble with volunteers poorly frames the reason for letting families have a full day to be together. Most larger churches have been in a flurry of outreach activities, services, outreaches and Christmas services on Saturday. One of the larger churches, Southeast Christian in Louisville KY, is having services around 11 a.m. Sunday morning. All other activities are cancelled that day.

It is and ought to be a principled decision. For some, the hectic pace of the ???church??? Christmas schedule calls for time for family (supposedly a high priority among evangelicals). Consideration for them and your volunteers is important. Christ did not call men to feed the fodder of programs at the expense of spending time with both the saved and unsaved in your home Christmas day.

Let the critics say what they will. There is still freedom in Christ and no man a slave to programs to be called ???doing His will???.


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