I just got back from the Christmas Eve service my church holds. Now I know that there are lots of people who are, as my sister calls them, C&E-ers. That is, they only go to church on Christmas and Easter. But I have to ask: why should we kowtow to them? Why do we alter our services for people who only show up twice a year when, in the process, those who show up weekly starve?
But that’s not my real complaint. No, my actual complaint is that the pastor just preached for the third time in a row on Luke 2:1-14.
Now it’s bad enough that every single Christmas sermon is going to sound identical already (especially if you’ve grown up in the church), but surely he was aware that Matthew exists too, isn’t he? Maybe he didn’t want to do a lot of sermon prep or something, but seriously three sermons in a row repeating basic information that I understood back in the third grade is tedious.
I know, I know. Think about the C&E-ers. As if they are whom the Church is built upon….
