Worship Service On Sunday if Sunday is also Christmas?

So what happens for Christians when Sunday happens to fall on Christmas Day?

Well for many it causes a quandary: To have worship services or not.

I have read a bit over the last couple of weeks giving great reasons for and against having services this coming Sunday.

For me, both as a believer in general and an Anglican in particular most of the arguments both pro and con are lost on me. It just isn't a question at all. The Lord has blessed All Saints with a place to worship, therefore there will be worship on both the Eve of the Nativity of our Lord and on Christmas Day.

Frankly, I find it a bit bizarre that evangelical believers are often nonplussed, even angered, about the yearly drive to remove the phrase "Merry Christmas" from the season's discourse, even as they mistakenly identify the Christ-Mass as "all about families spending time together." Folks, no it is not. Christmas is all about Jesus. It ain't about us except for the part we play in making it necessary that the babe in the manger had to come at all. You see, the only thing about Christmas that is about us is our sin.

You see the manger sits in a shadow...not the shadow of a barn in Bethlehem... but the shadow of the Cross raised high on Calvary. And so, this Sunday, I'll be in church, I'll worship Jesus with whoever shows up because they believe as I do: That Jesus is worthy of my worship...even if Christmas...maybe especially... if Christmas is on Sunday.

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