Christians & Halloween 🎃🔪

Moore's Corner Church

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Hello. In this video, I'd like to talk about Halloween. Should Christians participate in Halloween?

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Should pastors be promoting and celebrating Halloween? Well, the reason I'm doing the video is

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I saw a Bible -believing pastor on Facebook promoting something to do with Halloween.

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And I thought, well, that's kind of weird. A few years ago, somebody came up to me, I guess they had driven by the house of one of these liberal ministers, you know, these churches that have the rainbow out front.

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Somebody drove by this minister's house and he had one of these 15 -foot tall skeletons, right?

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You've seen these things, they're everywhere now. He had this huge skeleton in his front yard and somebody asked me, they're like, well,

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I realize he's the minister of one of these liberal rainbow churches, but that's still kind of weird to have a big skeleton in your yard for a pastor, right?

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That's weird, isn't it? I'm like, yeah, that is kind of strange, but this is becoming more normal.

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So let's just ask the question, should Christians promote or celebrate, participate in Halloween?

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You notice a lot of churches now are doing the trunk or treat thing. Now, some churches won't do that because it's too similar to Halloween, but a lot of people are kind of waking up.

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They're realizing that this culture is just very ungodly. And it's impossible not to notice that Halloween is a celebration of darkness, right?

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How do you decorate for Halloween? Skeletons, witches, ghosts, people dress up like the devil, you know?

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Obviously, it's a celebration of everything the Bible opposes. On the other hand,

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I would be quick to say, you shouldn't judge your brother. If a

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Christian family, they let their little kids dress up like, you know, the little girls dressing up like a princess and getting candy,

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I don't think you should judge people over it. On the other hand, people are waking up and they're realizing that we live in a godless culture and this is just part of the culture.

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And it's part of the darkness of this world. The Bible talks about that.

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Bible doesn't say anything about Halloween. It wouldn't, Halloween didn't exist back then. Now, people say, well, this is a

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Christian holiday. No, it's a pagan holiday. It's true, there is a Roman Catholic holiday called

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All Saints Day and the night before is called All Hallows Eve.

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So that's where the name comes from. But obviously, Halloween, it's morphed into something very different.

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So it's a celebration of darkness. And the Bible has a lot to say about darkness and darkness is associated with Satan and light is associated with God.

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So you think of 1 Thessalonians 5. Believers are said, you know, you're not in darkness, you're children of the day.

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In John, his first epistle, he says, you know, walk in the light. So if you're gonna ask me, should

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Christians participate in Halloween? I would say, don't judge your brother, but if you're asking my opinion and you're watching the videos, you're gonna get my opinion.

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I would say, I think Christians should not participate. Do something else.

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Everything we do, okay, technically, according to the Bible, everything we do should be to the glory of God.

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And there are some things that are maybe neutral. I just don't think Halloween is neutral. So does this glorify the

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Lord Jesus Christ? That's a hard sell, my friend. So do I, as a pastor, would

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I encourage a Christian family or a Christian individual to participate in Halloween?

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Obviously not. I did a poll on Facebook, or excuse me, on YouTube, and it's the most lopsided poll

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I've ever posted. And I asked, should Christians or pastors, I forget how I worded it, you know, but should

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Christians, I think I said, should pastors participate or promote Halloween? And it was like 96 % said no.

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Okay, so let's just leave it at that. Would I recommend people, you know, as a minister telling

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Christians, should you participate? I would say no. Not gonna judge you, but I would say no. And for pastors, especially, if you're a pastor, a

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Bible -believing pastor, and you're promoting Halloween publicly on social media, what's wrong with you?