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Is it okay to trick or treat? Is it okay to celebrate Halloween?

I grew up in a family that sent me mixed messages. I went trick or treating as a child. In fact my Mom tells a story about how my Dad and Mom took me trick or treating when I was little.

When I got to the door, instead of saying "Trick or treat" as my Dad coached me to, I said, "Birthday candle." Boy was my Dad mad!

Then as I grew up a little, my parents started preaching the perils of Halloween. They passed out tracts on the reasons that Halloween was wrong.

What exactly is Halloween? It is a celebration of the dead and the unknown worlds. It's a night to scare people and frighten them with ghosts, witches, goblins and zombies. It is a night that we send our children out to beg for candy from strangers.

Over the years, the churches have held parties on that night.

When I was growing up, our church called it Clown-Around Night. We wore Bible-friendly costumes to the church where we played games, ate refreshments and bobbed for apples.

Then it became a harvest festival night, which in some churches, looks more like a carnival with game booths where people win prizes. The churches hail it as an alternative to Halloween.

We still see costumes. The kids still get treats. And most of the time, we still hear scary stories. The only difference is that Jesus and the Bible are added to the mix.

Too often the churches hold a family-friendly version of a Halloween party. They are giving into the peer pressure of the world, thinking that it wouldn't be popular to just hold church that night or just have a fellowship time over a pot luck.

But we weren't called to be popular. We were called to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, to teach them about what Jesus did on the Cross for them (Mark 16:15).

Halloween is in its purest sense a devil day. It may seem fun. It may seem innocent, but it is not. It's the day that satanic cults hold their rituals, their ceremonies.

It is a night when people go to psychics to call up dead spirits through Ouija boards. They dabble in the occult. They dress up like witches, play with cauldrons and maybe even say a few spells, thinking it is innocent fun. It's not.

Witchcraft is very real, despite what scientists and intelligent minds claim.
Witchcraft is nothing to play around with. You cannot play with fire for very long and expect not to be burned. It is the same way with witchcraft.

In I Samuel 28, we see King Saul going to a woman with a familiar spirit

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