THIS WEEK: Easter is the Church's Christmas - Comments By Francesca Penty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Easter is the Church’s Christmas

So why do we all get so tied up in Christmas celebrations from September onwards if Easter is the main event?! Christmas brings images of donkeys, starry nights, babies and children in nativity plays. That’s not really going to work for us at Easter time; it’s all a bit too graphic with torn flesh, bloodshed, false accusation and a crowd braying for death. Yes it’s a time we think of new life with spring happening around us but rarely does the new life we were given through Jesus at this time factor into this.

Easter is also about conclusion, Christ dying to finish God’s plan to bring us back together with Him. The most incredible part of the crucifixion for me is when Jesus calls with His dying breath ‘It is finished’ and the temple curtain is ripped in two. This curtain was the thing that was supposed to separate your everyday person from the only place deemed to be holy enough for God to enter into. We’re not talking cotton or even heavy damask curtains either, the curtain was around 60 feet long and four inches thick. Now only Christ Himself is the way through to the Father, we can all enter the holiest of holy places through Him. Hebrews 10:19-20 says that the faithful enter into the sanctuary by the “blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which he opened for us through the veil, that is, through his flesh”. His flesh was torn for us.

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