(Joseph Spurgeon – TruthScript) After spending a couple of years wrestling with the arguments against celebrating Christmas put forth by some in the Reformed world, I have come to a better appreciation and a clean conscience for celebrating Christmas. I believe we can celebrate Christmas (and other Christian feasts) for the following reasons:
1. The Church‘s Responsibility The Church has been given the responsibility to teach all that Christ commands. The Church must teach the whole counsel of God. Seeing how this is impossible to do all at one time, the Church also has the authority to decide what parts of scripture and when those parts may be taught. Reformed Christians practice this weekly as elders decide what will be preached. There is no biblical reason why the Church would be forbidden to teach a certain truth at the same time each year. This falls clearly within the authority and liberty of the church to do. Those who would forbid the Church from teaching the nativity once a year have created an unbiblical rule that binds Christian liberty.
2. Freedom to Gather While the Lord’s Day is the only day set aside by Christ’s mandate for worship, the Church may still gather to worship and to have instruction on other days. The early church met together daily. Reformed churches often set aside Wednesdays weekly for some kind of religious gathering, be it bible study or prayer meeting. If these churches have the authority to set apart a Wednesday evening for worship then surely they could set apart a time once a year to teach the incarnation of Christ.
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