Keeping God first!
“Knowing Christ and Making Him Known”
I heard someone say just the other day, “I can’t believe Easter is over!” Easter
Sunday has passed, but is Easter over?
Easter, the most important festival of the church year, when we celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. Easter, when we are reminded that one of the primary reasons we worship on Sundays is that Sunday was the Day of Resurrection, and still is.
So, we should be saying, “Every Sunday we celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. Every Sunday is a day of rejoicing. Every Sunday we praise and thank God for God’s gracious gift of eternal life and God’s loving gift of heaven.”
During the Sundays following Easter, we leave behind the sadness of remembering our Lord’s suffering and dying on a cross for our forgiveness. We are once again renewed in our faith, and we may like worshiping even more than we did during the season of Lent.
The fast is over, at least for some of us who chose to fast during Lent, and as those who have repented, look forward to each day as being “the first day of the rest of our lives.”
And yet attendance at worship on the Sundays after Easter usually drops in most congregations like our own. There is so much more to do on weekends, as the days are longer and warmer, as the sun seems to shine a bit brighter, and we get an early start on enjoying all that summer has to offer.
For a congregation like ours, that can be a problem. What many people like best about coming to worship on Sundays is seeing their friends. Whereas the programs of the church may be winding down (attendance at Sunday Scholl also usually drops – farther), we are reminded that “it’s the people” with whom we pray, worship, serve, and fellowship with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that makes our congregation such a wonderful church.
Please don’t deprive yourselves or your children of the opportunity to meet with others who share the joy of the Gospel message, that Jesus has risen from the dead and has gone to prepare a place for us
In His Service,
VM
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