Posted on March 31, 2010 - by genes

The Easter Season

As is our usual practice, AFCC’s members and friends have exerted considerable energy preparing for Easter Sunday through a variety of ways.   Over the last several weeks, many have given up various things as a way of helping them contemplate the sacrifice of Christ.  During that same 45-day period, many have also undertaken special times of daily study and prayer.  Sermons, special services, Bible School lessons, choral anthems and three special mid-week services have all been planned to help us contemplate and anticipate Christ’s glorious resurrection. Easter Sunday is certainly worthy of that sort of emphasis.   However, now that Easter is here, it does not mean that it is time for us to find a new emphasis that will challenge and motivate us.  There is no more central or life altering truth than that concerning the fact that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.  His resurrection validates everything Jesus said as well as everything He asked His followers  to do.  If Christ rose from the dead, then that also makes him Lord and Savior.  His sacrifice and triumph must transform not just the 45 days leading up to Easter, but the next 365 days as well.

GRS