Easter

This is our first Easter together as a community doing church in a new way. Our leaders have been fasting for this weekend and for our church. Many are inviting their friends. Here is what people who come can expect.

· God will be there. He says we will seek him and find him when we search for him with all of our hearts (Jeremiah 29:13). We have been asking him for weeks to move in our Easter service and we believe he will.

· Eternity is on the line. Some will attend for whom eternity weighs in the balance. People used to go to gladiator events to watch people die. We go to Easter services to watch people come alive.

· Easter is about now! It is not just about going to heaven when we die because of the resurrection. Heaven is the presence of God. Jesus died so that we could taste heaven now. He died to begin a whole new age and the restoration of all of creation now. Easter is relevant to business, art, education, justice, marriage, family, everything! Everything we do is a part of God’s new creation begun in Christ.

· Its’ the best party in town. Easter is the super bowl of celebrations. Saturday night we will celebrate reconciliation with God, the fact that the Lord of our world and universe has been named and he is Jesus, and that the pressure is off. We do not have to suck everything we can out of this life because it is the beginning not the end.

· Our kids and students will get in the rhythm with us. What if the highlight of the year for our kids was Easter rather than Christmas? Christmas gets a few pages of ink in the New Testament. Easter gets pages and pages. It is clear that Easters is more important to God than Christmas. What if we trained our kids, now, to think and feel this way?

Let’s pray like crazy this week and lets invite everyone we know. And let’s come prepared to celebrate the greatest and most hopeful event in the history of the world!