So I can do whatever I want and as long as I do it under the guise of worship it's okay? I don't buy it. Or, we can host a celebration of a bagan holiday at church and it's okay because it brings in people who wouldn't normally come into the church. Don't buy that either. Why not have strippers on Thursday nights? It'd bring in people who wouldn't normally go to church.
So I can do whatever I want and as long as I do it under the guise of worship it's okay? I don't buy it. Or, we can host a celebration of a bagan holiday at church and it's okay because it brings in people who wouldn't normally come into the church. Don't buy that either. Why not have strippers on Thursday nights? It'd bring in people who wouldn't normally go to church.
Yep. God Forbid (no pun intended), church people actually imitate Christ and go among the sinners (the very people who need His help). We can't have that. It wouldn't be proper or dignified.
By God, that is his commandment.
13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him. 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? 17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Compare: Matthew 9:9-13; Luke 5:27-32
And to through things out of the loop is October 31st really Halloween?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
Thursday Night Strippers?!?! I'm there! Its an excellent way support single mothers...albiet $1 at a time though
+1. I set standards and limits for my kids too when they were little; I just chose my battles - and Halloween simply wasn't one. CSI was one, however. They're adults now, and if they watch CSI today they wouldn't admit it to me - I never allowed that show on any TV in my house while they were growing up.
Every year this gets brought up again...
Do you hear the outcry from those whose sacred days were paved over by a Church so bent on adding to its numbers that they just decided arbitrarily to place their own holidays at the same time as those they wished to convert? No. You know why? Because maybe just maybe - in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. If you want to believe Christ was born on December 25 instead of accepting that the day was placed such to coincide with a Solstice (thereby bringing in the pagans and heathens who would - as with the stripper example above - not otherwise come into the church), then great! Enjoy your holiday!
Do you hear the outcry from those whose sacred days were paved over by a Church so bent on adding to its numbers that they just decided arbitrarily to place their own holidays at the same time as those they wished to convert? No. You know why? Because maybe just maybe - in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. If you want to believe Christ was born on December 25 instead of accepting that the day was placed such to coincide with a Solstice (thereby bringing in the pagans and heathens who would - as with the stripper example above - not otherwise come into the church), then great! Enjoy your holiday!
^^^^^^^ very smart man right there folks ^^^^^^^
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
(Philippians 4:8)
I don't see any of the attributes mentioned in the passage above in the celebration of Halloween.
(Philippians 4:8)
I don't see any of the attributes mentioned in the passage above in the celebration of Halloween.
I have to agree with JB on this one, especially the part I put in bold. God is better then that.
If you're an evangelical, don't you believe that God gets pissed off at anyone for having fun? Isn't that why they keep adding new sins to the list (which sort of directly goes against the bible - adding to / removing from, etc.)?
This is what real Christians celebrate on the 31st (and we drink beer while celebrating):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation_Day
