Did your church hold a “Christmas Adam” service?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
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Summary
Many churches held “Christmas Adam” services on December 23, hoping to attract attendees with pre-holiday services. This was just one of several holidays our pluralistic culture is celebrating. In today’s article, we discuss how walking by faith, in hope, will one day be proven beyond all doubt and become clear to all that Christ is Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to the Thursday, December the 26th, 24 edition of the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by co-founder, CEO, and friend Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:19.0 | My wife and I attended a candlelight service on Christmas Eve. |
| 0:23.0 | You may have done the same, or your church may have offered something different, |
| 0:28.6 | a Christmas Adam service the day before. |
| 0:32.5 | New York Times reporter Elizabeth Diaz tells us that some evangelical-minded and socially media-savvy |
| 0:39.5 | Protestant churches and families have embraced this celebration on December the 23rd. |
| 0:45.5 | Why the name? |
| 0:46.6 | Quote, because Adam came before Eve, end quote. |
| 0:50.3 | Dees explains that for many, holding a Christmas Adam event is a practical way to compete in a crowded |
| 0:58.0 | holiday season by offering church services a day before the holiday actually starts. |
| 1:04.3 | Christmas Adam was just one of this week's holidays. |
| 1:07.7 | Hanukkah fell on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005, a convergence |
| 1:13.3 | that occurs an average of five times a century. Kwanza begins today, a week-long celebration |
| 1:20.1 | of African-American culture held annually from December the 26th to January 1st. There's even |
| 1:26.7 | Christmaca for interfaith families combining elements of Christmas and Hanukkah, such as a Christmas tree with Hanukkah ornaments. Here we see America's pluralism on full display, a vivid reminder of the popular assumption that all roads lead up the same mountain, so it doesn't |
| 1:45.7 | matter what you believe, so long as you are tolerant of the beliefs of others. After all, |
| 1:51.0 | the holiday will soon be over and life will return to, quote unquote, normal for another year, |
| 1:57.6 | until it doesn't. At our church's Christmas Eve service, we took the Lord's |
| 2:02.2 | supper together. As we did so, I had three thoughts that were new to me in my decades of leading |
| 2:07.8 | and sharing such services. First, when we ate the bread and drank the juice, Baptists don't use |
| 2:13.6 | wine, for reasons I won't try to explain today, they entered our bodies and changed |
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