Forward from: Fr. Seraphim Rose - A Tribute
It is true that many of the non-Orthodox hymns contain a teaching or at least an emphasis that is wrong—especially the idea that when one is “saved” he does not need to do anything more because Christ has done it all. This idea prevents people from seeing the truth of Orthodoxy which emphasizes the idea of struggling for one’s salvation even after Christ has given it to us, as St. Paul says: “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” But almost all of the religious Christmas carols are all right, and they are sung by Orthodox Christians in America (some of them even in the strictest monasteries!).
-Fr. Seraphim Rose to a catechumen, Nov. 14/27, 1980
-Fr. Seraphim Rose to a catechumen, Nov. 14/27, 1980