12/24/2025
Celebrating Christ’s birth honors God ‼️
For many years now, especially each Christmas season, I have consistently shared this reflection, not as a polemic, but as a pastoral and theological concern. Many people choose not to celebrate Christmas because they believe it is a pagan observance. Some appeal to passages in Jeremiah regarding trees, others argue that December does not align with the Jewish calendar, and still others raise additional concerns, ultimately concluding that we ought not celebrate Christmas, Jesus’ birth. However, when examined carefully, they do not bear the biblical, historical, or theological weight often attributed to them. Even if every objection, whether commonly cited or rarely mentioned, were assumed to be true, none of them would overturn one central and unmovable reality: Jesus Christ was truly born.
If this fact stands, and it does, then there is no coherent reason to refuse acknowledgment or celebration of His birth. If December 25 is considered irrelevant, then the relevant point remains the same: Christ entered the world on a real day in history. And if Scripture does not preserve the exact date, we can still affirm with certainty that He was born on one day, in one of the twelve months of the year. If honoring one particular day risks missing the precise historical moment, then the most consistent posture would be to honor His birth daily. In doing so, we ensure that the incarnation is never neglected.
In our upcoming service, we will carefully and respectfully examine how these objections developed, tracing their historical formation, biblical misreadings, and contextual misunderstandings, and we will unpack them with depth, clarity, and balance, not as a claim of superiority or final authority, but as a shared effort to grow in understanding, strengthen our faith, and faithfully honor the truth of Christ’s incarnation.