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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

In our great city of Sacramento, some mega-churches are closing their doors on Christmas Day, Sunday. The pastors are telling their people to stay home and open their presents.

 

This creates a real problem in logic for them: if Sunday is the true Lord’s Day, then we should keep it holy even if it’s Christmas! Nothing can supersede the obligation for the church family to worship before the Lord on His holy day.

 

But Sunday is not the Lord’s Day, according to the Bible. It’s one of the “six working days” of the week (Ezek. 46:1). The only one the Lord claims as “My holy day” is the seventh-day Sabbath (cf. Ex. 20:8-11; Isa. 53:13).

 

But the mega-church pastors have another problem: the Bible does not identify December 25 as the birthday of Christ. It says it’s impossible that it could be because “there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8). You don’t camp outdoors around Bethlehem in December, a rainy, cold month in Palestine (in the Northern Hemisphere). Nor do you take an 80 miles walk on foot, as did Joseph and Mary coming down from Nazareth. The roads would be mud.

 

Why then do so many who worship Jesus keep Sunday, and Christmas as His birthday? It’s a mix-up in history. Here in the North you can see that on December 21 the sun has gone as far south as it can go; then by the 25th you can detect a slight movement back north again—promising another spring and summer to come. The wild pagan tribes of antiquity hailed December 25 as the birthday of their god, the sun—one of many pagan ideas “baptized” into the church. Let us worship the Lord in spirit and in truth (John 4:23).

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