15 Worship Decisions We’ll Regret
Ignoring the Christian Calendar and adopting the Hallmark Calendar.
The link doesn’t seem to work.
Hoping to shed more light than heat..
What are some significant “Christian” calendar events that most evangelicals miss? Pentecost?
[Mark_Smith]What are some significant “Christian” calendar events that most evangelicals miss? Pentecost?
This fuss over one day?
I suspect the real problem is people complaining about Mother’s/Father’s Day.
seems to me to have had WAY MORE destructive an impact on evangelical Christianity, and the world, than celebrating Mother’s Day ever did!
EXAMPLE: My wife is taking 2 of our kids to a church other than our own on Wed for AWANA. She attends a women’s meeting during AWANA. It has become apparent that more than half of 20+ women are divorced, and I don’t mean divorced and then started attending. I mean divorced WHILE attending and/or saved. It is NOT a special class for divorcees. Just the regular women’s class. I am not being judgmental here, I am pointing out the fact of how pervasive the destruction of divorce is in the evangelical church, let alone the world.
It’s about a whole lot more one or two days.
The ancient calendar was a didactic tool, among other things, because every week of the year was devoted to focusing a particular portion of the earthly life and ministry of Christ.
There are better places to read up on it, but this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year
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Mark, you have a fine point, i think the article is more contained to worship (Sunday am services?) and maybe the author doesn’t see that fitting into his list.
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But someone who is in favor of this please provide some examples of days we should be celebrating? Most “Christian calendar” days are “saint” days. What about “celebrating the beheading of John the Baptist”?
Maybe someone wants to celebrate “All Saint’s Day” or “All Souls Day” instead of Memorial Day.
Do you mean it’s wrong for churches to observe Sweetest Day and not Easter? (runs for cover)
(for the uninitiated, it’s a Michigan Hallmark holiday where men are guilted into trying to rescue their relationships with flowers and a card every October, if I remember right…the husband who does everything right might get a peck on the cheek or something!)
For my part, I agree with all 15, and I agree with Mark that the list is by no means exhaustive. However, not a bad place to start. My family has started to observe some of the Jewish holidays to connect ourselves with God’s work in the Old Testament. Not all of them (our Yom Kippur is Good Friday, for example), and not always in the way Jews do today (we don’t drink on Purim until we can no longer discern “Haman” from “Mordecai”), but there is something to be gained there.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
referring to celebrating things like Advent (the four Sundays before Christmas) and Lent. Epiphany-the coming of the Magi. Easter. the Ascension. Pentacost.
Why it’s better? … It’s interesting. There is something that intrigues me about it. I think it might be better to ponder and celebrate Christ’s ascension each year vs being celebrated as a mother. I suppose we could do both, too. but if we had to choose, walking ourselves and our kids through the major events of Christ’s life each year seems like a good idea.
Bert, we did some jewish things for a homeschool section and I really liked it. Want to try and incorporate it more as I can. Love making challah!
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