Perhaps I'm missing something here but don't the evangelical churches normally hold services on Sunday? There is a large one near me and their parking lot is always overflowing on Sundays. So, why would a church that is normally open on Sunday close on this Sunday, just because it also happens to be Christmas? What is it that I am not understanding?
Some of these megachurches say they need "thousands" of volunteers for a normal service (and you thought we had armies of EMCs) and that it is difficult to get so many on the holiday. And anyway, the last time this happened on a Sunday, few people showed up anyway. So they just called the whole thing off.
It speaks a lot to the state of the megachurch and its attendees.
SD
Well, I am not convinced you are missing anything, but, if you are - I am too.
Evangelical churches indeed normally hold services on Sunday. The reason given as to why our church is not holding a service is so that families can spend Christmas together, the assumption being that we otherwise wouldn't.
? - go figure.
Again, I don't think you are 'not understanding", I think you get it.
Because they are holding lots of services on Christmas Eve. It takes a lot of managing to hold the Christmas Eve services, and they don't want to do it on both Christmas Eve and Christmas.