Posted on 11/01/2009 3:58:46 AM PST by Christian Press
“A local well known Baptist church held a huge party for Halloween yesterday.”
Our Baptist church in Simi Valley does that, too. We have a “Jesus Loves Me” party every Halloween for church kids and neighborhood kids. Bouncy house, bags of candy to take home, hot dogs, etc. Again — no scary, witchy, ghostly, demonic, or inappropriate (like little girls dressed like bimbos) costume. It’s a great success.
I really hope then, that you guys don’t do Christmas trees or hang mistletoe. There be some pagan roots there.
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Gawd. Anyone still wonder why church attendance is dropping like a rock?
I'm glad to hear about the local church providing that event for the children and families.
Our small Baptist church holds an annual Pumpkin Patch function for the local community.
We serve food and beverages for everyone, and have booths with candy prizes (no child ever fails to "win" some candy), cotton candy, popcorn and bottles of water, and a cake walk, and a separate "Kiddie Land" for the little ones to participate without being in the middle of all the bigger kids running around having fun.
The church members donate all the funds and volunteer hours required to put on this two-hour event.
And everything is free to anyone who wants to attend.
I've been the Director for the last two years, and it is a real joy to watch children and their families have a great time.
The church's position is that participants can come dressed in any type costume they want to (we see all costume types from angels to animals to witches to ghouls to Mickey Mouses, to ... well just everything, LOL).
We get some locals who just come for the free food, and some who just come to see how many free cakes they can win at the cake walk. But it doesn't matter, because it gives our church a chance to serve the community by providing a safe place for children and their families to have a fun evening and to experience Christians serving their community.
They had some religious information available, and just about got me to sign up as a member.
We also provide some religious information available, we and provide small Children's Bibles to anyone who wants one.
I have only been a Christian for about four years, and spent over 50 years "turning my face away from the Lord", but I can tell you that I wish I had turned to the Lord long, long ago, and am glad that I am able to serve him and bring at least one night of happiness and smiles to those little guys and gals.
Our church members agree that the event is worth every penny of money and every minute of time we donate to it.
Honestly, I think that analysis is a little heavy. I just see the holiday as fun; dressing up for little children has always been a favorite thing to play, and to do it and go to the neighbors to show it off is harmless. It is for the kids...
Enjoy the cuties in their costumes and give them a piece of candy for it.
It’s for the kids. It’s supposed to be fun.
As long as they're in season, you use the right kind of ammo, and you eat what you kill (i.e. no killing for just sport), I think it's fine.
The Believer’s Freedom
23“Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive. 24Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”c
27If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28But if anyone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for conscience’ saked— 29the other man’s conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience? 30If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— 33even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
No doubt the TRUE devil worshippers, pagans and satanists lament the commercialization of the holiday and the takeover by Big Candy!
I am glad you enjoy that but good grief it sounds and boring.
This whole “had pagan origins” thing is a joke. I find the whole idea that God would associate with this world, which is fallen and pagan, disturbing. Perhaps we ought to check his credentials or just have a “Goodness day” where we think good thoughts but leave our awful, awful bodies seated in a hard wooden chair.
Both the Christians and the secularists are going to end up with these rareified purity-tested festivals that mean nothing.
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