The events of the next few days are the pivot upon which eternity turns. The death of Christ, which we celebrate (and I suppose that is the word) with the Passover…but the Passover—that is the death of Christ and that which goes with it—is not all. Theologians refer to something they call the Christ Event
. I’m not sure all that they mean by it; but it talks about, I think, the entirety of what Christ did, of his sacrifice, of his death, of his burial, but also of his resurrection. Because, in fact, of all these things, that thing upon which it all depends is not the death of Christ, it is the resurrection of Christ. For indeed, anyone—in fact everyone—can die. Anyone can suffer. But Jesus was raised from the dead. Everything depends on that. In First Corinthians 15, the apostle Paul takes pen in hand, as it were, to address this point; because for some strange reason the Corinthian church had just flat lost touch with this part of the Christ Event. He said…
Christ Is Risen
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