Leaves are falling and chocolate peanut butter cups line the shelves. It must be October. This October, Ambassador International hosted a five-part series titled: So What’s the Big Deal with Halloween.
We’re going to include snippets of each post and a link to them for your reading leisure! Our goal is to provide resources for you so that you feel empowered to make the right decisions for your family.
From Allen Steadham…If one is celebrating Halloween in any form, it is giving silent acceptance to all of Halloween, including the harmful and evil representations. Presently, many people do not believe in spirits — or anything they can’t identify with their five senses.
Read the rest of Allen’s article HERE!
From Malinda Fugate…All holidays are an opportunity to learn history. We find that our modern celebrations have grown from a blend of multiple cultures and periods.
Halloween is no exception; pagan roots mingle with the church’s observation of All Hallows Eve and All Saints Day. This presents us with an opportunity to choose what we’d like to keep and what we reject. In fact, our version of a holiday doesn’t have to look like our neighbor’s, and we can personalize our traditions to remember the past and start something meaningful and new.
Read the rest of Malinda’s article HERE!
From Katie Cruice Smith…People are searching for something during Christmas and Easter, and the Church has the opportunity to show them the One they need. But Halloween does not draw people closer to Christ. The “fun” is shrouded in darkness, with strangers being begged to give candy to our kids. Our children are encouraged to be mischievous for the evening because “it’s all in good fun.”
Read the rest of Katie’s article HERE!
From Jake Tyson…While the origins of the holiday may lie in some way with occult practices, that is hardly its state today. While a few practitioners of occult religion might continue to hold those traditions, it is hardly the prevalent theme of the holiday as celebrated by the majority of Americans. When we think of Halloween now, we think of candy, fun costumes, and childhood. For the vast majority, the devil and demons never enter into that framework.
Read the rest of Jake’s article HERE!
From Daphne Self…As I said, I experienced the occult. Not just a brush with it but was involved in it until Christ saved me from that life. But the stain of what I know and seen and experienced stays with me. And it pains me to see fellow Christians defend, or even partake in, such an evil. And I will stress again, it is evil. It is not of God, therefore anything not of God is not good
Read the rest of Daphne’s article HERE!