The War on Christmas: Family Day
"This Christmas, no prayers will be said in several megachurches around the country. Even though the holiday falls this year on a Sunday, when churches normally host thousands for worship, pastors are canceling services, anticipating low attendance on what they call a family day."
AP Wire
Note: I changed the link on this. It's still an AP wire story but goes through CNN instead of the LA Times.
2 comments:
I keep going back and forth on this. Maybe it's my traditional evangelical roots which keeps nudging me Christmas really is a pagan holiday after all.
Or maybe it's because I don't expect much from these sorts of churches beyond making things entirely convenient.
However, I'm bothered by the disingenuous argument about attendance. I think I know these churches well enough to know this isn't about the attendance. This is about the leadership. They don't want to go to Church and work on Christmas. I wish they'd just say that.
Church for them is work, and so they should have the day off. Churches that are set up as places where the ministers worship rather than work can go ahead and keep the focus in the right place, and they certainly will.
Yeah- I'm with you on this. I want to be "at church" Christmas Sunday because I really feel I will be with my family. I suppose if I were going to a place with 4999 other people I didn't know- I wouldn't feel I was missing much.
And as much as their church staffs want the day off from their jobs- I can't help but imagining attendance really would be low on Christmas Sunday for the same reasons- nobody wants to do things they don't really want to do on Christmas.
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