Spreading the gospel this Halloween enrages secularists, but Answers in Genesis’ Ken Ham refuses to accept their intimidation.
“Secularists are acting as if they have just discovered a secret mission of AiG: to reach kids with the gospel during Halloween! We’ve got news for them: for decades now, we’ve been reaching children with the gospel at Halloween (and throughout the year)! It’s almost a shock to these secularists, as if Christians haven’t been sharing the Good News of the gospel with the world since Christ’s death and resurrection!” Ham writes in his blog.
AiG is far from the only organization to encourage Christian families to use the secular holiday to spread the Good News.
Chick Publications has several comics dedicated to Halloween.
Many pastors choose to host Halloween alternatives at their churches where children and families can safely enjoy themselves and learn about God.
AiG’s Ham says he struggles to understand why secularists are so furious with the gospel message.
“The secularists only want children to hear their anti-gospel message! They want kids to be told they’re just animals in an evolutionary death-and-struggle world, bound for a purposeless, meaningless existence, and then oblivion as they die and cease to exist!” he writes.
But still the godless agenda marches on. Ham says it reminds him of the prophecies of Isaiah 5.
“Really it all goes back to a worldview. The gospel offends their humanistic belief that man is basically good, and contradicts their belief that this life is all there is. But Scripture is clear that no one is good and that everyone will stand before God in judgment (Heb. 9:27),” he says.
“By the way, doesn’t it seem rather hypocritical for a culture that is obsessed with demonic Halloween costumes and decorations, enamored with curse words referring to hell, and fascinated by horror movies and haunted houses to criticize the AiG tracts for their ‘terrifying image of an angry dinosaur’ and references to ‘eternal damnation and pain’?”
This Halloween, Ham suggests believers join together to share the love of Christ. Will you join him?
