What about Resurrection the week after Easter?

Easter Sunday 2012 is in the books. It was a great day at LFCN with doves being released in our “Son” Rise service, a tasty fellowship breakfast with other believers; a ton of kid’s participating in our egg hunt, a record attendance in our 11 am worship service, and seven baptisms. However, the week after people have gone back to their routines, responsibilities, and struggles of life without allowing the Resurrection
celebration to infiltrate the lives they lead.

I so want all of us to understand that Easter is so much more than a date on the calendar. Paul proclaimed, “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection
from the dead” (Philippians 3:10). I must admit I don’t think I have come close to grasping the full understanding of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Sure I enjoy the realization that His resurrection brings salvation and removes the sting of death…….but does this realization permeate into all the
areas of my life? It is my prayer that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ will eradicate the dead areas of our
lives. It is my prayer that the unbridled presence of God will saturate, captivate and overwhelm our existence in order that our lives will boldly proclaim that we are “attaining to the resurrection” that raises dead things!

May it be so!

Stephen Willis