This kind of stick-in-the-mud-ism is exactly why we are declining in numbers and not effectively communicating the Gospel to a desperate and lost world. By hiding in your hole at Christmas, you are missing a prime opportunity to speak about the Savior.
Just speaking the truth here, brother.
“Just speaking the truth here, brother.”
Indeed you are - Merry Christmas!
I live in the heart of Christ of Christ territory. I do N OT know of a single member or church that doesn’t’t celebrate Christmas
As a member of the Church of Christ....
We live in an age where we get to do everything custom tailored to OUR tastes. Cars, food, insurance, education, loans, the list is endless.
However, true religion is not ours to dictate. We cannot pick and choose, as we do with most things in our life nowadays, how we serve God. We do it the way God wants, hence the article above.
We should be carrying out the great commission to go forth and spread the gospel everyday not just on a special man made holiday. It seems to me the Churches of Christ hate to give up what appears to be worldly good times. We are suppose to be different. And it is because of our differences we will be persecuted as Christ was. We were the created ones, we did not create God, so why do we feel the need to pick a day to celebrate His birthday when he did not tell us to do so?