Dear brother pastor,
I hope it’s not too late to make you reconsider your decision to cancel church on Christmas.
I know that December is crazy busy–for you and for everyone else.
I know you probably have Christmas Eve services, maybe even one that bumps up against midnight.
I know that families like to gather Christmas morning to open presents.
I know that many of your people may be traveling and others won’t come to church on Christmas after coming on Christmas Eve.
I know that canceling church for one Sunday will not send all your people slouching to Gomorrah.
I know that getting volunteers for the worship team, and for the sound system, and for the nursery may be challenging.
I know that you’d rather not have to work on Christmas when you already had to work on Christmas Eve.
I know that you may have places to go and family to see.
I know that when Christmas falls on Sunday it’s an all around big pain (why couldn’t Leap Day do us a favor and skip over this problem?!).
But don’t do it. Don’t cancel all your services on Christmas. Scale back on the nursery perhaps. Take the week off from Sunday School. Make things closer to an hour than to an hour and a half. Skip the life groups or even the second service for a day. But don’t close the church up on Christmas.
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