Comments on: Should We Even Celebrate Christmas?

By: Crespo

Crespo — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:02:49 +0000

I’ve been swaying for years over wether Christmas should be celebrated, eventually deciding not to because it was in essence instigated by the Roman church, and outlawed because of this in Calvin’s Switzerland and Knox’s Scotland. I am, however, willing to be swayed on this matter if anyone can convince me otherwise

By: Bob Kauflin

Bob Kauflin — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:09:03 +0000

Tom Ascol, a Reformed Baptist and president of Founders Ministries, has a blog where he discusses this very issue. If you’d like to read more from Charles Spurgeon, go to http://www.founders.org/blog/2005/12/spurgeon-on-christmas.html.

By: bill melone

bill melone — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:53:43 +0000

bob you don’t need to post this, i just wanted to say thanks for a great blog–biblical and not political is a relief when it comes to christmas

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:32:31 +0000

Good point. Although most seasons and celebrations of the church (Christmas, advent, lent, pentecost, etc.) are not Biblically mandated, I think that God set the precedent for these celebrations and seasons of rememberance in His commands to Israel to celebrate feasts like Passover. God made us as people who need seasons and celebrations to help us remember His goodness. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t celebrate and remember His goodness to us all the time, but I think seasons of remembering different things help us to keep a balance and remember to remember aspects of His goodness that are more easily forgotten. I pray that we can use the church seasons as a tool to serve us in our worship of our Living God! May our preparations for Christmas this advent remind us to prepare for Christ’s great and glorious second coming!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:49:16 +0000

Spurgeon had much more to say about Christmas than the one quote above. It might be more accurate to say he was certainly not opposed to celebrating it, and actually saw some value in it. See
http://www.founders.org/blog/2005/12/spurgeon-on-christmas.html