Pastor's Article

Don't Waste Easter

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

"'Tis the queen of seasons, indeed," says Sundays and Seasons, the church's worship resource book. Easter is the great feast of the church, the week of weeks, a fifty-day festival of rejoicing. The resurrection of Christ is proclaimed with shouts of "alleluia," and there is good news for everyone: death has been put to death, humanity has been restored, the desert flowering into a garden, and life has a forward motion to it. We are moving out of chaos to order, out of fear to hope, out of sadness to joy, from death to life.

What I said in last Sunday's sermon I repeat. What I want us to understand is that if we do not take home and use the power that God r has given us in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, it l would be as foolish as not wearing the clothing we have. Actually, it is more serious than foolishness. It becomes dangerous.

If the risen Jesus stands among us, as Jesus did amongst the disciples immediately following the Resurrection, and gives us blessings of forgiveness and peace, and we do not use those blessings, then that is foolishness. We have in Jesus' Resurrection something that can bind us together where we are separated; something to heal us where we are wounded; something to forgive us where we have sinned.

What I am trying to say is that the blessings of Easter are very practicaL Where there was death, there may be life; where there are doors shut, they may in Christ be open.

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