1. What is your favorite scary movie?
Poltergeist. I can remember having nightmares from watching that movie when I was younger. It’s the classic scary movie without getting into all the blood and gore which some horror movies are infamous for. I was never into the Halloween, Friday the 13th, or Freddy movies. These type of fantasy movies just seemed a bit unbelieveable.
Ghostbusters was a good movie. I think if it hadn’t been a comedy, it could have turned into a good scary movie.
2. What is your favorite Halloween treat?
3 Musketeers or M&Ms. I hated anything with nuts in it. Why ruin a perfectly good candy bar and put peanuts in it? I usually gave the ones with nuts to my mom.
On a side note, I remember when we were younger, our parents would always take my sister and I over to my grandparents’ house for Halloween. Granny would always have Juicy Fruit gum for us.
3. Do you dress up for Halloween? If so, describe your best Halloween costume.
I never had any good costumes for Halloween. Usually it was something lame like a ghost or just a mask. Other people’s costumes were always better than mine. I guess they put more thought into planning it.
4. Do you enjoy going to haunted houses or other spooky events?
I didn’t actually start going to Haunted Houses until I was in college. Even then it was sorta stupid.
The first haunted house I went to was in elementary school. We had a fall festival. One of the ticketed attractions was a haunted house. Usually it was a bunch of setups with headless bodies, skeletons, and junk like that. Then at the end someone would jump out and scare you. It was put together by members of the PTA. When I was really young, I would have been too scared to go into those.
As a side note, a few years back there was a trend among churches to have dramatic spiritually centered “Judgement Houses.” Similar to haunted houses, these are dramatic performances which show the ultimate end fo the “good kid” vs. the “bad kid.” Basically they attempt to scare kids into following Christ. They show them what heaven and hell could be like. After the performance they offer spiritual counseling. I don’t really like this approach. Important spiritual decisions should never be made on the basis of emotional appeal. Once the new convert looses that emotion, they will also loose the desire to follow God. I’ve seen it happen over and over. Emtional appeals are made….either scaring someone or playing on their emotions (ie “Feel Good” religion). Rather, decisions like this should be made only after serious thoughtful consideration of the outcome and determined committment.
For some odd reason, I have heard less and less about these type “Judgement Houses” around here. I guess churches are two busy fighting the lottery. Or maybe they finally realized this type of approach just doesn’t work.
5. Will you dress up for Halloween this year?
Probably not. Although I will hand out candy. Last year we didn’t have any kids coming to the door. I guess I live in an older neighborhood.
We record each and every sermon at church. I’ve been noticing we are getting more and more people who request to be on the church tape mailing list. Right now we are upto 23 people. The latest – a truck driver from Ohio. How do these people find out about our tape ministry? Currently we can only dub 3 tapes at a time. We are trying to purchase a larger tape dubber – one which can do as many as 6 or 7 tapes at a time. These dubbers are high speed dubbers which do both sides at the same time. Usually only takes 5 minutes. Yet these 5 minutes tend to add up when you end up doing it 5 times.