Halloween --- for or against? // Wednesday E-Devotion

Colossians 3:17 (nlt) --- And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

For years I have fought with a specific question and had countless people ask it as well. "Are Christians supposed to celebrate Halloween?" Tough question. What do you think? See the verse above.

The choice is ours. We can get legalistic about it and never touch anything the world touches. We could be indifferent to it and just not care about anything. There has got to be an answer out there.

We are excited about a big event we are hosting along with our neighbor (www.btw21.com tv station) that will impact lots of kids here in our community. Fact is (and my answer to celebrating Halloween) we have to ask a simple question: "How can we tell more people about our Jesus?" There is it plain and simple.

Use it all. Everything you got. All your influence. Tell people about Jesus. Even if you have to have kid games and tons of effort. Just give the people Jesus.

Anymore questions about Halloween?

John 1:4 (nlt) --- Th e Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone.

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