“Easter is not about immortality but about resurrection
from a death that is a real death with all its frightfulness
and horrors, resurrection from a death of the body
and the soul, of the whole person, resurrection by the
power of God’s mighty act. This is the Easter message.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter
These days, It can seem as if death is ever-present and everywhere—not only the physical death of friends and loved ones, but also that of ideals and dreams, hopes and promises, freedoms and opportunities. These types of literal deaths are experienced daily and deeply by people of all generations, all types, and all abilities.
As Bonhoeffer suggests, Easter doesn’t avoid death or promise immortality, but rather this holy week and day claims us in the real embodied and incarnational hope of the resurrection, gifting us a life grounded in the hope and promise that nothing, nothing at all, can separate us from the love of God, by the Holy Spirit, through Christ Jesus.
Let us walk in that hope together.
Pax,
Pastor Scott