There are families within my church[Valley View Baptist Church] who don't celebrate Christmas. Primarily they don't because it is a Catholic holiday. The Catholics actually got the date from some pagan religion and certainly many of the customs associated with the holiday are pagan in origin. Personally I don't have any problem with celebrating aspects of the holiday. I wouldn't want the church to hold Christmas evening or morning services or anything like that, though. Christmas carols are sung but not that many. We know and teach that it wasn't anywhere near Christ's birthday and I told my kids up front that there isn't a Santa Claus as soon as they first asked about him. We will probably have a tree and will exchange gifts and the regular stuff like that.
Because of the convictions of some of the church's membership we haven't had a Christmas play in a few years. There will be some special music I imagine though.
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