If I may, what follows is a grievance most fowl but proclaimed with love, affection, and the respect due such as compose your panel of worthies. it salutes a Puritan abrogation of all 'special' Church calendar days as Christmas, Easter, All Hallows' Evening, and even the 'outside the sanctuary' recognition of Festivus. The grievance is of course the extrabiblical celebration of such Roman Catholic syncretized "Holy Days" as Christmas and the like, and from proponents hailing a regulative principle of worship no less. I trust each of you so solemnly assembled is of the greatest intent and purity of heart to honour our most holy Lord and Saviour. You are not of the pride of king Uzziah (2 Chron. 26), the "strange fire" of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10), nor any false worship of intent in contrivance of man-made unction against the guidance of Holy Scripture. I only pray you each would reflect in your heart what best befits the worshipfulness from God's chosen, and whether it is holy and just to serve God a celebration of Christmas before a watching world, an interest of angels, and our God who commands a worship in spirit and in truth.
If I may, what follows is a grievance most fowl but proclaimed with love, affection, and the respect due such as compose your panel of worthies. it salutes a Puritan abrogation of all 'special' Church calendar days as Christmas, Easter, All Hallows' Evening, and even the 'outside the sanctuary' recognition of Festivus. The grievance is of course the extrabiblical celebration of such Roman Catholic syncretized "Holy Days" as Christmas and the like, and from proponents hailing a regulative principle of worship no less.
I trust each of you so solemnly assembled is of the greatest intent and purity of heart to honour our most holy Lord and Saviour. You are not of the pride of king Uzziah (2 Chron. 26), the "strange fire" of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10), nor any false worship of intent in contrivance of man-made unction against the guidance of Holy Scripture.
I only pray you each would reflect in your heart what best befits the worshipfulness from God's chosen, and whether it is holy and just to serve God a celebration of Christmas before a watching world, an interest of angels, and our God who commands a worship in spirit and in truth.