Christians are not Christians on Halloween. Not because they have compromised and participated, but precisely because they don’t participate. The one day of the year where children (“Permit them to come to me…” Mark 10:14) were attempting to come to us and we shut the door and turn off the lights.
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2010/10/jesus-with-his-lights-turned-off-on-halloween-2/
When our boys were little tikes, we would take them to our church on All Hallows Eve for a fun-filled night of games and candy. We did this for years. I repent. We missed some major opportunities.
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2010/09/halloween-a-missed-opportunity-for-evangelicals/
The reason I propose that good Christians celebrate Halloween and stay home from the “Christian alternatives” is that Halloween is the only night of the year in our culture where lost people actually go door-to-door to saved people’s homes
http://betweenthetimes.com/2010/09/28/why-all-good-christians-should-celebrate-halloween/
on All Hallows’ Eve, the custom arose of mocking the demonic realm by dressing children in costumes. Because the power of Satan has been broken once and for all, our children can mock him by dressing up like ghosts, goblins, and witches. The fact that we can dress our children this way shows our supreme confidence in the utter defeat of Satan by Jesus Christ—we have NO FEAR!
http://www.wittenberghall.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=294
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