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Put Mass Back in Christmas?
Steve Burdine made an interesting comment the other day about the religious celebration of Christmas in the denominational world. He raised the point that many in Protestant denominations, talk about putting Christ back in Christmas. Steve asks the question, will they "put Mass back in Christmas?" You see Christmas is a contraction of the two words - Christ’s Mass. Of course Mass has to do with a Catholic doctrine and practice. Most all the Protestant denominations have rejected the mass celebration as taught by the Catholic church. Yet over the years since the Protestant reformation movement began during the days of Martin Luther, various Catholic doctrines have slowly been absorbed back into Protestantism. (For instance, instrumental music is another doctrine taught by the Catholic church that has been absorbed slowly back into Protestant churches. Surprisingly, many are not aware of these historical facts.) It is ironic to talk about putting Christ back into Christmas, when he was never there to begin with. You can correctly talk about putting Mass back into Christmas, for our Catholic friends put it there. But I am not a member of the Catholic church, nor do I believe many of the Catholic doctrines that are espoused and taught by these people. The scriptures do not uphold and justify the Roman Catholic church, nor many of its doctrines. Beloved we must seek to be satisfied with only doing what God has authorized and taught us in his word. To go beyond this is to transgress God’s will. "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son." 2 John 9.
