Halloween is just a couple of months away. I thought I would ask how the forum feels about Christians participating in this event.
Regardless of the origins of Halloween, the more pressing question for today’s Christians is this: What does Halloween look like in our current culture, and how should we respond to it?
Maybe it is just ME, maybe it is just being convicted or growing in Biblical knowledge but when I was growing up at home, my parents never questioned if we “should” celebrate the event–there was never a belief that what we were doing was evil or unbiblical.
After I matured, got married and had kids, I was challenged by many Christians who thought Halloween should be ignored. The two Christian schools that my children attended treated October 31 as any other day, and encouraged parents to study the history of Halloween, which I did = conviction!
In my own neighborhood, some families decorate with cheerful pumpkins, lights, and scarecrows—evoking a harvest theme. Others, however, create disturbing, grotesque displays that glorify death, horror, and darkness and evil spirits and demons.
I am very disturbed to see more and more local churches participating in Trunk or Treet and Fall Festivals on Oct 31 st.
Is this a problem for YOU or do you think it is acceptable for Christians to be involved in death, demons, vampires and so on?????
Regardless of the origins of Halloween, the more pressing question for today’s Christians is this: What does Halloween look like in our current culture, and how should we respond to it?
Maybe it is just ME, maybe it is just being convicted or growing in Biblical knowledge but when I was growing up at home, my parents never questioned if we “should” celebrate the event–there was never a belief that what we were doing was evil or unbiblical.
After I matured, got married and had kids, I was challenged by many Christians who thought Halloween should be ignored. The two Christian schools that my children attended treated October 31 as any other day, and encouraged parents to study the history of Halloween, which I did = conviction!
In my own neighborhood, some families decorate with cheerful pumpkins, lights, and scarecrows—evoking a harvest theme. Others, however, create disturbing, grotesque displays that glorify death, horror, and darkness and evil spirits and demons.
I am very disturbed to see more and more local churches participating in Trunk or Treet and Fall Festivals on Oct 31 st.
Is this a problem for YOU or do you think it is acceptable for Christians to be involved in death, demons, vampires and so on?????
