Halloween: the ultimate trick or treat.

Halloween is viewed by many as a night of family fun, fantasy dress up, and sweet rewards. Millions participate in Halloween festivities for these reasons. If this was all there was to Halloween there would be nothing to be concerned about. But not everything is at it appears to be. There is a dark-side to Halloween.

The last few weeks cable channels have flooded TV screens with horror movies specializing in blood, fear, and gore. Modern imaging technology makes these films shockingly realistic. Satanists claim Halloween as their holy day. The occult revels in this dark celebration.

The contrast is stunning. One side of the Halloween coin is bright, fun and exciting. The other side represents the darkest of features of fallen man. Both sides are celebrated on the same night. Is it possible to ignore the dark side of Halloween and enjoy only the fun part?

I believe one of the real dangers of Halloween is to classify the darkness associated with the day as fantasy that can be ignored. But make no mistake, the forces of darkness are real and predatory. Numerous passages of the Bible warn of spiritual warfare. The enemy is real and vicious. The Bible warns us not to be taken in and to avoid evil.

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Why christians should celebrate halloween

Halloween Provides a Unique Opportunity for Community
How many days out of the year create the same opportunities that Halloween does? Not only are kids knocking on your door every two minutes, but families are getting together, having fun and building community. Opportunities like that don’t come around all the time (a couple times a year, maybe). Ask yourself this: What good is being done by excluding yourself from community with your neighbors?

Bueller? Bueller?

Celebrating Halloween Gives Evil Less Power, Not More
Think about it: If Satan can’t get you to worship him, what would he be willing to settle for What cripples people? Fear, maybe? If he can convince you to stay inside and lock the doors guess what you won’t be doing—loving people, serving your neighbors and living like you believe that “greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4, NASB). Celebrating, on the other hand, turns Satan’s mission on its head. To conquer evil, do good. To conquer sadness, laugh. To conquer death, live.

To conquer Satan, celebrate. Love. Serve. Pray. Give. In doing so, you’re-proclaiming the victory of Christ.

Halloween Today Is Different From Halloween a Long Time Ago
True, Halloween, at one point in time, involved all kinds of things that can legitimately be considered evil and to participate in those activities would be a participation in evil. But unless you are part of a minority group of neo-pagans or wiccans (i.e. unless you are not a Christian), your participation in Halloween won’t come close to participation in those activities. It is one thing to be against legitimately evil practices, and it is quite another to be against practices that aren’t really all that evil (putting on a costume and having fun) because some people, at some point in time, believed things far different from what we believe today.

The bottom line is this: Halloween has no power that you refuse to give it. It is evil to the extent that you buy into the beliefs behind it. If you don’t buy those beliefs, then there’s no harm in throwing on a costume and having fun. In fact, that may be the very thing God is asking you to do.

Have you asked Him?

Ken Eastburn is a pastor at The Well, a community of house churches in the Southern California area.

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Why christians should celebrate halloween


http://www.charismamag.com/life/culture/7207-why-christians-should-celebrate-halloween

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Thank God you're wrong.

FAIL....it was a christian that wrote the article that I quoted.


Nothing to do with atheism.......FAIL

Logicboy03:


FAIL....it was a christian that wrote the article that I quoted.


Nothing to do with atheism.......FAIL

Thank God you're still wrong.