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To: PFKEY
have no issues with the way anybody chooses to celebrate Christmas short of turning in into a religious holiday wherein someone might incorporate it into a sunday worship service.

No midnight Christmas service for you and yours? Is there soemthing offensive about combining Church with Christmas?

53 posted on 12/04/2003 4:35:16 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
No midnight Christmas service for you and yours? Is there soemthing offensive about combining Church with Christmas?

No midnight services would be correct.

I'm not sure if offensive would be the correct word though. I see it as being unscriptural in that we have no commandments in the NT to observe this day as part of our worship. The pattern that the first century Christians observed is pretty clear and adding things to our worship might be offensive to God so I am more comfortable with not including anything extra.

Having said all that I love Christmas and what it represents to Christians. I thanks God daily for sending his Son.

58 posted on 12/04/2003 3:41:58 PM PST by PFKEY
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