Controversy!
Are you having church on Christmas day?
This potentially church splitting issue is even on CNN — how will the church recover from this negative publicity!! What will we do — can we go on, will the church survive…
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Our church will be having three morning services but only an hour each and with the whole family in the service.
Dave.
Yes, we are having Christmas morning service. We are having it an hour earlier. 9:00 - 10:30. When trying to decide what to do I asked the kids in the church if they would attend on Christmas. All said yes ~ (the ‘mega’ church I attend has 50 members) This special day the children will be ministering along with the pastor. I guess that though we are a very small group I should be very THANKFUL that the folks are committed to worship the Lord. I guess sometimes big isn’t better. I guess I can be thankful that the kids would rather spend a bit of time in church than with new toys. When one little girl (6) was asked by her parents if she wouldn’t rather stay home . she said no it’s Jesus’ Birthday. The great thing about this answer is … the parents have never attended church and said they will not even on Christmas. She gets a ride from an aunt who travels 30 miles to be here. So… I am disappointed that a ministry ‘cops out’ because only 1000 may attend. What does this teach our children about prioritys. People need the oppurtunity to choose ~
We also are having church on Christmas Morning, but we will have one service instead of two. I think that closing church on Sunday because it is Christmas would send a mixed message to our kids. I have spent the past month instructing my kids that Christmas is All About Jesus. What would it say if we then closed church because Christmas is first and foremost a family day. I’m looking forward to celebrating Jesus’ Birthday with our kids!
we are not having Christmas on Christmas day so I gues we are the ones sparking all the controversy. Just kidding. We are only 16 months old and totally portable so we felt it would be better to have 2 Christmas Eve service then give our people Christmas day off. Other reason for this were, we meet in a theatre and we felt it was wrong to ask them to send a manager up on Christmas Day to open up for us. And our setup team shows up at 5 am. So thats whats going on with us. Great question and I love controversy.
p2
sorry we are having Christmas on Christmas Day. Just now service.
That is probably how controversy gets started.
p2
Harvest Pointe Christian Church in Milford OH is also a portable church but here is an article on our website saying why we are open. You can read that article here http://www.harvestpointecc.com/News/2005/051219_WhyChristmas.asp
Thanks,
Webharvest
http://www.harvestpointecc.com
Yep. We are having church at 11:00 a.m. with only one service. We aren’t a “megachurch” we are about 350.