Hasn’t Easter changed this year? No nice clothes and celebrations and bands and a darkness to light experience! But has it changed? Really? Or have we been asked to experience an Easter closer to the first one -- when all was mystery, and people were locked in their homes due to fear, and disciples were separated from one another, and there was danger being in the streets. Could this Easter, as a blogger noted, be something similar not dissimilar to what Easter, that First Ever Resurrection Sunday may have felt?
With that in mind, let’s come to worship. Let’s reconnect to how it might have been for those first disciples to encounter the fact of the resurrection while feeling afraid. So many are afraid in this era and all of us need the encouragement to enter into the life promised in Jesus. Trust Him. Encounter Him. Walk with Him anew.
Perhaps we need to recall Paul’s words to the Christians in Rome: “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow-- not even the power of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below-- indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39). That definitely includes Covid-19!
Here’s the link: 9:00 am Sunday Come Westside and Worship!