Dear Sir,
Do we make the best use of carol services as an opportunity for evangelism? What do the non-churchgoers make of the readings? If you don’t know any Shakespeare, what would you get from half a page of it read out? Not much.
This last Christmas I attended two carol services. The first was one of the eight (!) carol services held by a large evangelical city church, total attendance maybe 4-5000. Their Sunday attendance is around 2500, so there must have been a lot of unbelievers present, even after allowing for friends like me from other churches. Several of the carols were unknown to me (I’m musically disadvantaged) and they had a talk of a fairly intellectual nature.
