Should Apostolic Churches Have Easter Egg Hunts?

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by crakjak

Hey, get on the internet and you can find people that believe everything is pagan, or a conspiracy. I believe Paul gave an example about eating food offered to idols, just take care not to offend the weak among you, because the idols are really nothing. Get over it, that's a bunch of fear mongering.

Apples & oranges bro...

If you are going to apply the scripture of eating food offered to idols to something someone does concerning the issue being discussed here then you would have to be speaking of someone going out after easter and buying the cheap easter candy on sale.

That is eating food that was associated with the practice.

What you would need to be able to make the point you were trying to make here is to find a scripture that spoke well of them taking the traditions they used when making offerings to the idol and using it in an outreach.

I don't think Paul wrote any letters along those lines.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call the law!

I grew up without it and I learned what Christmas and Easter was all about. I would hate to think that our children knew more about Christmas trees and Easter eggs/bunnies than about the Birth of Christ, his death, burial, and resurrection.

Blessings, Rhoni

P.S. I think you are surprised? I am more conservative than people give me credit for...

[Old Paths]

Should Apostolic Churches Have Easter Egg Hunts?



Nope.

[jillian]

I think the way Salina does it is great. Just think... there may be some children there that have never heard the Easter story. Never!!!

What an oppurtunity to plant a seed in those hearts. What a chance to
win them to Sunday School. I was a SS kid. My parents never attended church, but they let us go to SS.

I remember well and with great fondness the Easter Sundays in that little church. Sunrise service, then to someones home for breakfast, then back to the church for service, then back to the river for a picnic and egg hunt. Then home after a long beautiful day celebrating Christ.

I was just 9 or 10 yrs old. That has always been my favorite memories of Easter Sunday.

[Digging4Truth]

Why is it called the easter story?

Why don't we call it the resurrection story?

Sounds much better... to me at least.

[Old Paths]

Originally Posted by jillian

I think the way Salina does it is great. Just think... there may be some children there that have never heard the Easter story. Never!!!

What an oppurtunity to plant a seed in those hearts. What a chance to
win them to Sunday School. I was a SS kid. My parents never attended church, but they let us go to SS.

I remember well and with great fondness the Easter Sundays in that little church. Sunrise service, then to someones home for breakfast, then back to the church for service, then back to the river for a picnic and egg hunt. Then home after a long beautiful day celebrating Christ.

I was just 9 or 10 yrs old. That has always been my favorite memories of Easter Sunday.

Your post says a lot.

I'm sure it was there, but I never read The Cross, Angels, Crucifixion or Resurrection in your "Easter Sunday" experience.

This is why there is such a controversary.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Old Paths

Your post says a lot.

I'm sure it was there, but I never read The Cross, Angels, Crucifixion or Resurrection in your "Easter Sunday" experience.

This is why there is such a controversary.

Yes sir...

One really hesitates to make comment on a post like Jilian's.

Largely because this is an emotional rememberance and it will also be defended on an emotional level.

We all have "good times" that we remember growing up but fond memories are no basis for a belief system.

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Why is it called the easter story?

Why don't we call it the resurrection story?

Sounds much better... to me at least.

Many churches have gone to that terminology lately.

They've gone from "Easter Sunday" to Resurrection Sunday too.


I agree. Puts it in a better light to me.

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by LadyCoonskinner

We will have an egg hunt Saturday before Easter and open it to the community.

The Skinner always reads The Resurrection Eggs story and then talks to everyone for a few minutes while the eggs are being hidden.

It is really a great evangelism tool. We have lots of visitors and make EVERYONE sign up and get their name and address and then go visit them and invite them to church the next day.

Then on Sunday, we have another egg hunt for the smaller kids and then after church we have a CANDY RAIN. I started that because the "BIG KIDS" pouted cause they didn't get to hunt eggs and get candy, (the brats-am I an enabler or what) anyway EVERYYBODY gets to be in the candy rain, even old people like............not gonna go there, but anyway, that's the way we do it in Salina.

Lots of fun, and lots of work.

I enjoy it though!!!

I think this is a smart thing to do. You can reach people through outings such as this when those same people probably wouldn't step a foot through the front door of a church on their own.

[Steve Epley]

Fond memories of good times are wonderful indeed but do not validate what a church does or does not do if it is not scriptural.