This is Stupid

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Alastair Roberts

Willow Creek and a number of other megachurches are cancelling their Christmas Day services (Tim Bayly also reports on this).

This is just another instance of the idolatry of the natural family in action. Christ came in order to form the New Family. True celebration of Christmas will be centred upon the ‘personal time’ of the New Family. The personal times of our natural families ought to grow out of this if they are not to be idolatrous.

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About Alastair Roberts

Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University) writes in the areas of biblical theology and ethics, but frequently trespasses beyond these bounds. He participates in the weekly Mere Fidelity podcast, blogs at Alastair’s Adversaria, and tweets at @zugzwanged.
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1 Response to This is Stupid

  1. Unknown's avatar pduggie says:
    December 8, 2005 at 2:24 pm

    It is terrible. I also wonder if the anti-christmas forces will have a field day with this, demonstrating how a celebration ‘not commanded’ in the bible is interfering with worship that is commanded

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