The Resurrection doesn't make a whole lot of difference...
Apr
16
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4/16/2009 10:37 AM
Nate asked this powerful question several times on Sunday: What difference does the resurrection make? His answer, both profound and true, was that it doesn't make much of a difference at all... unless it "comes home."
If the resurrection is merely something that happened a few thousand years ago, if it lives only in the realm of history, if it's something that we think about and read about but nothing more, then the reality is that it doesn't make much difference.
We looked at Acts 2 to see what the resurrection meant for the early Church. For the disciples and the growing community of Christians in the 1st Century, the resurrection was the "defining reality of their life." Resurrection affected them on every level. There was no escaping it, no forgetting it, no confining it to one day a year or one day a week. It was the very definition of who they were; it was their life.
The question then becomes, "What about us?" What if we were defined by the new life of Christ's resurrection? What if resurrection was the rule in our homes and families and workplaces? What if our decisions and actions and thoughts and emotions were birthed out of the new life that resurrection brings?