Today is Easter! Praise the Lord! It is 100% appropriate that the church gives special notice and celebration to resurrection Sunday! The achievement of the Lord on this day is the completion of a great miracle of forgiveness - sin bearing - and defeating death and sin! The day is worthy of our special notice!
How will we evaluate Easter? Huge crowds will appear at most churches today! It is quite likely that most of our churches will have the largest crowd of the year! We will polish up the worship center, break out our best clothing, sing our best songs, and hopefully, preach great sermons! Extra seating will be available! And if our people show up wearing their new look, and sing our best songs, and listen to our messages of resurrection - and if they fill up our extra seating - then on Monday we will look back at this day and say, "WOW, we had a fabulous Easter!"
And, I will concede the point - it is always great to fill the building - hopefully for the glory of God!
But I would submit to you that the best way to evaluate the success of Easter Sunday will be on April 15th! Yes - the Sunday following Easter! Because, you see, Easter is such an amazing event that we don't celebrate it once a year! A once a year celebration is so old school for something so utterly life-changing, history-making, and future impacting! THE church of the Lord Jesus Christ celebrates Easter as the body of Christ every Lord's Day - every Sunday!
So, next Sunday, April 15th, will be a much more realistic mark regarding how successfully and how completely the Holy Spirit has transformed lives as a result of the resurrection of Jesus Christ! My prayer is that today - all who come - will be renewed in their faith - or come to faith in Jesus Christ - because Easter is worth all your devotion and your life - until He comes!
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