What a great day we had yesterday for our Easter celebration! I’ve heard three different counts on our attendance, but I’m guessing we had around 240 adults and kids celebrating Christ’s resurrection with us. Meeting at Columbus Elementary School was a success, and I appreciate all the volunteers who helped us get set up and torn down (and thanks especially to Bob Olson who is not only a New Hoper but is the custodian at Columbus).
I LOVE Easter. In my line of work it’s always a busy day in a busy weekend for me, but Easter is just a spiritual highlight for me each year.
I sometimes liken our Christian worship to being a sports fan. For example, a real Blazer fan is always reading about his team in the paper or online, watches the games on TV or listens to the broadcasts on the radio. And he even talks about it with other Blazer fan-friends at work or elsewhere. But the most fulfilling expression of his fan-dom is actually going to the games and cheering on his team with several thousand other fanatics. That’s what our Sunday morning worship should be. We should be honoring and praising our Lord all week long in all kinds of ways…but there’s something special about coming together with 150 others from our Fellowship to worship Him together as a community!
Well, if coming together on Sundays is like going to a regular season game, then Easter morning is like the playoffs! There’s a certain excitement and electricity in the air--the seats are all full, the faces are painted, and you’re there because you’ve been a winning team all season. God is great all the time, and we love to express our hearts to Him every week, but Christ’s death and resurrection is the ultimate example of His amazing power, and our eternal destinies are changed forever as a result of that awesome day almost 2,000 years ago! What a great reason to party!
All that to say, I loved worshiping with my church family yesterday, and I love the One who sacrificed Himself and then conquered death on my behalf! I hope you felt the same, whether you were with us at New Hope or celebrating at another church.
I LOVE Easter. In my line of work it’s always a busy day in a busy weekend for me, but Easter is just a spiritual highlight for me each year.
I sometimes liken our Christian worship to being a sports fan. For example, a real Blazer fan is always reading about his team in the paper or online, watches the games on TV or listens to the broadcasts on the radio. And he even talks about it with other Blazer fan-friends at work or elsewhere. But the most fulfilling expression of his fan-dom is actually going to the games and cheering on his team with several thousand other fanatics. That’s what our Sunday morning worship should be. We should be honoring and praising our Lord all week long in all kinds of ways…but there’s something special about coming together with 150 others from our Fellowship to worship Him together as a community!
Well, if coming together on Sundays is like going to a regular season game, then Easter morning is like the playoffs! There’s a certain excitement and electricity in the air--the seats are all full, the faces are painted, and you’re there because you’ve been a winning team all season. God is great all the time, and we love to express our hearts to Him every week, but Christ’s death and resurrection is the ultimate example of His amazing power, and our eternal destinies are changed forever as a result of that awesome day almost 2,000 years ago! What a great reason to party!
All that to say, I loved worshiping with my church family yesterday, and I love the One who sacrificed Himself and then conquered death on my behalf! I hope you felt the same, whether you were with us at New Hope or celebrating at another church.
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