A preacher friend of mine recently talked to me about Halloween, saying:
"You know, it's funny. Some of us Christians won't participtate in Halloween. We refuse to go out and buy a mask or a costume and play dress up like most other people. "
"How is that funny?" I asked.
"It's funny because some of us don't have a problem wearing a mask year round and pretending to be someone we're not."
"Ah, I see, " I replied, "the hypocrisy thing, right?
"Yes, of course. But I was thinking how sad it is that many of us are deathly afraid of removing our masks for fear of rejection from others."
"That's interesting...."
"Sure. Think of it...How ironic that most Halloween masks are designed to turn us into monsters...Into something horrible...Yet the typical Christian mask we wear is designed not to scare others, but to hide our monstrosities from the world at large.
Some of us feel so unworthy, so destitute, so...not up to par with everyone else, that we feel the need to cover ourselves up with the smiling mask of fickle commitments and fair-weather friendships."
"Wow..."
"Yeah, 'wow'...So who are we going to be this Halloween?"
"I'm sure you have an idea."
"Wouldn't it be interesting if we used Halloween as the occasion to unmask ourselves before the world? As others prepare to be someone or something they're not, we capitalize on this night to become the someone we really are?"
"Scary!"
"Yes, but only then will most of us discover the liberating freedom and healing that's in Jesus Christ."
"So we shall know the truth..."
"'Yes, and that truth shall make us free."
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Thank You for opening our eyes to the Golden Compass. We would not want to invest our money to help promote this subject matter to our kids or expose this to ourselves as Christian Adults for that matter. We should be very jealous as to what we allow ourselves to be exposed to. The "buc" stops with us. As Christians we should be the first ones to "boycott' these types of movies. Instead put the money towards a much better purpose.... Take the $20 that you would have spent seeing the Golden Compass and drop it in the offering basket at the church next Sunday. (Don't get me wrong, we greatly enjoy going to the movies!... we go all the time, BUT only to the the flixs that DO NOT promote such things!)
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