The headlines quoted below (with links to the articles attached) reveal a new low in faithfulness among believers in Christ.
Some megachurches closing on Christmas,
CNN.com 12-7-05
When Christmas Falls on Sunday, Megachurches Take the Day Off,
NY Times 12-9-05
Defense of canceling church on Christmas,
Kentucky.com 12-11-05
How can one even try to justify our failure to worship God on the basis of a holiday? If Christmas isn't about Christ, how can we justify canceling services? If Christmas is about Christ then we are still hypocritical for not worshiping Him on that day.
For those Christians who did cancel worship services in observance of Christmas, who did you put first in your life in making that decision: yourself or Christ?
We are explicitly instructed against "forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching" (Heb. 10:25).
We cannot justify our failure to worship God on the importance of family gatherings (Matt. 10:34-39).
34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
, which you can purchase from Amazon.com for $9.95. Besides being a Bible dictionary, it also contains chronologies and charts like the one below.
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