Things are bustling around here in Preschool Ministries this week as we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birthday! It's the biggest and most important birthday of the entire year and we want to make sure that everything is just right! We've got cake and pizza ordered. Games and songs prepared. Now, all we need is you! Join us this Sunday night from 5:00-7:30 for our Happy Birthday Jesus party! All children ages 3-Kindergarten (fully potty trained) are welcome, so bring a friend!
We hope to see you there!
December 3, 2015
October 28, 2015
Why Do We Have a Fall Festival on Halloween?
I love the New Living Translation of Romans 12:2 which says:
Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
As our church prepares for Fall Festival, this verse comes to mind because the question always seems to linger; "If we have a party on Halloween, isn't that still celebrating Halloween?"
My answer is, "No."
If we as a church use the event as it was meant to be, an outreach to the lost, then it's not at all copying the customs of this world but changing the way it thinks. If a small child doesn't come to church, but his parents will bring him to our Fall Festival, then the child is taught that Halloween is a time to go to a safe place to have fun. And he might even pick up some Jesus from you in the process.
Halloween can't be the "the devil's holiday" of we don't let it be. He's already lost and has no authority over our Godly intentions. If Halloween is meant to be scary it's because we are told it's meant to be scary. Sure there will always be those who use it for horrible things, but have you watched the news? Every day could be Halloween.
I look forward to seeing hundreds of princesses, super heroes and who knows what else this weekend. No doubt there will be a few dressed as vampires or monsters of some kind too. But aren't those the ones that need to be here the most? Because by being here they may come to learn God's will, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
As our church prepares for Fall Festival, this verse comes to mind because the question always seems to linger; "If we have a party on Halloween, isn't that still celebrating Halloween?"
My answer is, "No."
If we as a church use the event as it was meant to be, an outreach to the lost, then it's not at all copying the customs of this world but changing the way it thinks. If a small child doesn't come to church, but his parents will bring him to our Fall Festival, then the child is taught that Halloween is a time to go to a safe place to have fun. And he might even pick up some Jesus from you in the process.
Halloween can't be the "the devil's holiday" of we don't let it be. He's already lost and has no authority over our Godly intentions. If Halloween is meant to be scary it's because we are told it's meant to be scary. Sure there will always be those who use it for horrible things, but have you watched the news? Every day could be Halloween.
I look forward to seeing hundreds of princesses, super heroes and who knows what else this weekend. No doubt there will be a few dressed as vampires or monsters of some kind too. But aren't those the ones that need to be here the most? Because by being here they may come to learn God's will, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
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