The message to those of us who are leading Christmas services is clear: Whatever else you do, make sure to set aside time just to tell the Christmas story. Let the beauty, simplicity, and majesty of the narrative wash over and sit with the congregation.
Category: Christmas
Don’t Forget to Invite People to Christmas Services!
Inviting those we know to experience the unique joy and beauty of worship at Christmastime is demonstrably one of the easiest steps toward Jesus that many people are likely to accept positively.
“Jesus I know, but who are you?”
Jesus is well known and accepted in American pop culture. The challenge is not for Christians to teach more about him, but to demonstrate that he is worthy of ordering our lives.
What if Evangelicals and Liberals Want the Same Salvation?
As we head into the Christmas holiday, we have become accustomed to the culture wars starting up again about whether it is appropriate to say “Merry Christmas” or whether religious symbols can be displayed on public land. These issues are usually set up as examples of conservatives (Christians) vs. liberals (non-religious). Predictable, right? The conservative…
Reflecting on Christmas in America
With the holidays well behind us now, we can stand back and take a look at how religion and Christmas are being approached by Americans without the annual culture wars that often attend such conversations. The Pew Research Center has provided an excellent set of data about this topic in its December 2017 study on…