There has been quite a brouhaha about the fact that several churches are closing their doors for Christmas this year. This is the first year in eleven that Christmas is on a Sunday morning, (in 1994, I was in my first year with my home church in Colorado, and I don't remember Christmas being on a Sunday at all) and several notable megachurches are not going to hold services on that day. This news has made several papers, and there has been some backlash. The reasons for these megachurches closing down on Christmas are pretty easy to understand: in a megachurch, you enlist the help of thousands of volunteers to pull off a Sunday morning, and because Christmas is a time where most families like to stay together, there would be a shortage of volunteers and these megachurches would not be able to pull off what they normally do. Most of these churches have added other services (Christmas eve and even December 23rd) to their schedule, so they aren't really taking anything away service-wise.
Thankfully, this problem won't resurface for several more years (2011 to be exact). Yet I am thankful that Southwest Church is having one service on Christmas Day. Although we will most certainly be down in numbers, I think it will be a great service for all involved as we celebrate the birth of Jesus and worship Him this Christmas Day.
Here is a great article from The Internet Monk about the craziness of Christmas this year.
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I'm looking forward to Christmas Day service...spending it with my "family" and hearing Kristen sing again and true worship...that makes it perfect :)
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