Signposts: How Should Christians Handle Disagreement Over Halloween?

The Russell Moore Show

Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this episode I respond to a question about Halloween and the local church, and how Christians can handle disagreements in a way that glorifies Christ and preserves fellowship. Listen below, and use the links to subscribe to Signposts to get new episodes when they publish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.0	Had a question from a listener asking about Halloween.
1:03.0	And she's particularly concerned not about Halloween itself and whether or not Christians ought to celebrate Halloween.
1:10.0	There are all sorts of resources you can look at about that.
1:12.0	Her question particularly is about
1:14.4	disagreements that she has in her small group, in her church. They have a small
1:20.4	group, community group, Bible study, and some of the families, trick or treat, and their
1:27.0	kids dress up and they do Halloween, some of the families don't because they think that Halloween is a pagan holiday and they think it
1:36.2	celebrates darkness and those sorts of things and so they have a disagreement and
1:40.9	she's she's just asking what do we do when Christians
1:44.1	disagree about something like Halloween and I think it's a really good question
1:49.1	because it comes at something that the scripture talks about really clearly I think in in Romans
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