Archive for April, 2006

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:42-47)

This past week we celebrated Easter Service together as God’s family. The church service was very memorable, with many of our family and friends there with us. The charge from the scriptures was to consider deeply what Easter means, what it cost for us to even have the resurrection as something to celebrate about. The cost was Jesus Christ suffering a brutal death and a lonely, cold burial. There were no eulogies given at Christ’s “funeral.” The men who were his best friends and closest companions during the times of his life and ministry were nowhere to be found. Their hopes were dashed with his death on the cross and everything that they had dreamed about through Jesus they thought was over. Defeated, they went back to their old lives (John 21:1-5) , because – like many of us – they were too stubborn to believe what others had seen and what Jesus had said (Mark 16:9-14, Luke 24:36-48).
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