Why do churches close on Sunday? (MegaChruches reduce Holy Day to holiday)

HERALD-LEADER ^ | Dec. 04, 2005 | Frank E. Lockwood

[Between the Lines]

I guess when you run a church like a business, you will have to take off for holidays.

[wideawake]

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[SandRat]

I wonder if anyone has checked to see if they are having a Christmas Eve service.

[randog]

Others, troubled by the holiday's increasingly secular tone, lament the change.

It might just be the "mega-churches". My wife belongs to a church that started out small but grew very large--about 5K congregation. I've noticed a trend towards secularism in this church. Last Christmas the pastor gave a sermon (after a Las Vegas-style pre-sermon warm-up show) dressed like he was leaving for the Bahamas right afterward.

[Charles Henrickson]

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Not only is it the Lord's Day, it's also the Festival of the Nativity of Our Lord, one of the three chief festivals of the whole church year! So instead of whimpering away in defeat, retreat, and apathy, we ought to be doing CHURCH ON STEROIDS!

But these historically amnesiac and theologically anemic "evangelical" churches wouldn't know the gospel if it came up and smacked them in the face--or, better yet, put the Lord's Word in their ears and his Body and Blood in their mouth.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Just shaking my head. People might disagree about how to celebrate Christmas, but Sunday is Sunday...

[WKB]

What say ye Baptist ping!!

[WKB]

I wonder if anyone has checked to see if they are having a Christmas Eve service.



Our "small" Church is planning to have a
Christmas Service Wednesday night the 21st.
and no service on the 25th.

[Between the Lines]

I wonder if anyone has checked to see if they are having a Christmas Eve service.

The churches, which rank among the largest congregations in America, will hold multiple Christmas Eve services instead.

Yes, they are.

[Between the Lines]

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[Between the Lines]

So instead of whimpering away in defeat, retreat, and apathy, we ought to be doing CHURCH ON STEROIDS!

Amen.

[Uri’el-2012]

Y'shua was not born on December 25.

He was born on the feast of Tabernacles in early October

when He came to Tabernacle among us.

However He was conceived on the feast of Lights.

It was during that feast that He entered as the LIGHT of the world.

b'shem Y'shua

[wideawake]

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My question mark was meant to express my complete and utter perplexity at this.

If going to church on Sunday interferes with your "family time", your family isn't much of a family.

[Between the Lines]

People might disagree about how to celebrate Christmas, but Sunday is Sunday...

But we can't let Sunday get in the way of a holiday. After all it's for the children. /s

[txroadkill]

This is just my opinion, but....

It does seem like a lot of churches these days have been so focused of filling pews that they have forgot that the goal is to fill heaven. Seems like they decided that if you cannot bring the world to church, then why not bring the church to the world. While filling the pews is a great idea, we cannot omit the word to do it so that it is easier to get people to come and not feel guilty about what they do the other six days of the week.Christ said, "pick up your cross and follow me", he never said, "call you buddies, we're having a party."

[Clock King]

"It's more than being family-friendly. It's being lifestyle-friendly for people who are just very, very busy," she said.

Either you make time for the Lord or you don't. If you don't, then your faith just isn't that important to you, and becomes just another thing on the todo list.

[r9etb]

Amazing. There are several people who are members of my church precisely because we happened to have a Christmas Day service, and they sorta just wandered in.

[Sensei Ern]

Our church will have a full morning service, with Sunday School, but we will not have an evening service. We are having a Christmas Eve service as well.

I sit on our church's board. We discussed being open on Christmas. We only have 40 adults, so if more than one decides that they are staying home, the pews seem empty. My personal desire was to have all services, but I understand the actions of others to have an evening to be with family. So we settled for what we got. THere was not even a discussion of cancelling SUnday service altogether.

[wideawake]

These are your theories, but you assert them as facts.

[proudofthesouth]

Then they need to start paying taxes.