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Podcast: Erin Church of the Nazarene
Episode: Why We Do Christmas: Untangling Traditions and Truth
Description: Pastor Daniel Medders says he is encouraged by the growing number of people at ECN who are new to faith or returning to church, and he uses their questions to explain why it matters to ask, “Why do we do church the way we do.” He intentionally shifts the service into a more conversational format to mirror how he believes Jesus taught, then uses Christmas topics to explore how traditions formed, including the real history of Saint Nicholas and how the modern Santa image developed much later. He highlights the hope of Christmas by emphasizing that God worked through an i...