Lent—Why Bother? To Lead us to Christ

White Horse Inn Blog ^ | Feb.22, 2012 | Michael Horton

[PAR35]

I suggest that we should all give up superstitious Papist traditions for Lent. We should also remember to eat red meat on Fridays in honor of the season.

[Gamecock]

Sounds like a winner to me!

[suzyjaruki]

I guess it is in me a remnant of growing up in a Lutheran home, but I have always loved the Lenten season. Not for giving anything up, which is not required, but for adding to. The midweek Lenten services and reflections on Jesus were somber and moving. In a time when religious services are bereft of emotion, I now like to sit with my old Missouri Synod Lutheran Hymnal and ponder what was done for me.

[HarleyD]

So what I’m getting from Dr. Horton is that Lent should be focused on Christ and leading us to Him,

I'm with the Scots on this one. I see no reason to do anything different during Lent as at any other time. To eat a fat jellyroll on Tuesday just so you can fast on Wednesday is so silly. Some people we know are "selectively" fasting; that is choosing particular things they will not eat. It's nothing more than mumbo-jumbo.

Our pastor gave out devotional guides for Lent. All I could think of is why aren't the people already doing devotionals.

[Lera]

Lent gave us the debauchery that is Mardi Gras .
It isn’t biblical

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Lent is not Biblical and ashes on the forehead is a Romanist practice to show off how pious one is.

Resist the pull back to Rome.