Providence Points: Celebrating Holy-Days
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Biblical, Devotional & Informational
October 22, 2007
Vol. 2, No. 15
Celebrating October Holy-Days
Rocktober I get: the Rockies are stomping the competition.
Holloween makes sense from a pagan perspective.
Oktober Fest I can understand as well. It's a cultural celebration;
it has morphed into an America community get-together.
Harvest Festivals of rural yesteryear hijacked into Evangelical mega-
church revival meetings, I can comprehend.
But for a LUTHERAN CHURCH to celebrate Oktober Fest?!?
It's true: I drove by such a church with a banner inviting the
neighborhood to such an event. That I don't get!
Wouldn't they celebrate REFORMATION DAY?!?
Remember?...Luther?....95 Theses?
That transformation of Western Civilization from the Medieval Ages
into the era of capitalism, democracy and religious freedom?
How quickly I forget: American Evangelicals have collective amnesia.
Or rather they practice historical hubris: the past is irrelevant, the
now is superior.
Well, I for one will shout from the roof-tops the glories of the
sovereign grace of God Almighty, preaching in the shadows of our great
spiritual leaders-Luther, Knox, Calvin-who gave their livelihood,
sweat and tears for the propagation of Christ's sweet mercies and
awesome judgments.
In contrast, a vast host of Christians will pass through October 31 in
blissful ignorance, repeating the errors of old Israel: "my power and
the might of my hand have gained me this wealth"-material, political,
economical, and spiritual (Deut. 8:17).
When we do not properly honor our spiritual fathers, we violate the
Fifth Commandment. When we imitate their worse instead of their best,
we deface the Fifth Commandment.
Reformation Day is soon arriving. It is not a holy-day as the pagans
celebrate or the Roman Catholics worship. But it is a time, like
Purim of old, to celebrate our deliverance from spiritual death-to
recall our fathers' sacrifices and our own commitments.
Last year's series on the impact of the Reformation: October
Revolution: http://polymathis.blogspot.com
More exciting info is being added!