Relax, it?s just innocent fun!
Every year as we approach the end of October we begin to see the aisles of our local supermarkets fill up with witches hats, plastic devil’s horns, Frankenstein heads, and much more. Halloween is on the way again. As you may expect our friends across the pond in the USA do all of this on a much bigger scale. Whole superstores are devoted to the event, parties are planned, huge bags of candy are purchased, mobile horror houses and ghost trains appear in the larger towns, multiple horror films are released in the cinema and trailed on television and radio and so much more.
Then on the evening of the 31st we watch as children dress as devils, witches, ghosts and a variety of other gruesome characters and walk around our streets having a great time with license to eat as much sugar as they can fit in their stomachs without being sick.
1 John 3:7-10 (ESV)
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
Questions abound: Is it really just good innocent fun? Should Christian parents allow their children to participate? What message and witness does this give out to the world (and to our