October is here! It's my favorite month of all the months. The weather is perfect, the trees are absolutely beautiful, it gets dark earlier (no more cries of "but it's still light out, do we have to go to bed?"), it's the month I was born in. So many reasons to love it!
The one negative aspect is that it's the month the devil is worshipped more than usual--halloween. All month long there are advertisements, decorations, and sales promoting the holiday. Everywhere you go there are ghosts and goblins and witches and scary pumpkins and costumes and candy. People plan parties, prepare tricks, purchase treats for passing out on trick or treat night. Businesses gear up to make the most of the season by hosting zoo boos or spooky corn mazes. People talk about what costume they'll wear, what their children will wear.
Every year people ask my children if they're going trick or treating, or what they're dressing up as. Every year I reply "we don't do halloween". Every year someone tries to convince me it's just harmless fun.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 says "Avoid every kind of evil".
I could list scripture after scripture that makes it clear a Christian has no business "doing halloween". Read Galatians, Ephesians, Thessalonians, just to name a few books.
There is nothing in the bible that could lead a person to think halloween is just harmless fun. If you love Jesus and call yourself a Christian and think it's okay to take part in halloween, don't take my word for it--investigate it yourself. A carnal Christian will make excuses and live to please themselves. A born again Christian loves the truth and lives to please Christ.
Would Christ party with satan?
He most definitely would not.
ReplyDeleteI applaud you for not tiptoeing around the subject! We don't do Halloween either.
I'd be interested to know your thoughts on the whole church Fall Festival thing. I have flip-flopped on the issue over the years.