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Easter week.  Good Friday.  Resurrection Sunday.

My last blog post was about your individual response to the good news of Easter.  That Jesus died for your sins and was raised from the dead.  If you have faith in Jesus, you are baptized into his death.  Raised to a new life.  Crucified with Christ so that you no longer live, but Christ lives in you.  That is a response of your own individual faith and love.

But Sunday is an opportunity for the communal response to Jesus death and resurrection. We get to take communion together.  Where as a community of believers we together announce the Lord's death until he returns.

Yes we remember.  But we announce our conviction that Jesus died for us.  And that he died for all of every race and nationality.

We announce our conviction that not only was he raised from the dead, but that he is coming back to take us to be with God forever.

You will hear a lot of great sermons this Easter Sunday.  But the greatest sermon is the one you will be a part of -- the sermon where we believers proclaim that Jesus died for our sins.  Where we proclaim that we believe.  Where we make it clear that there is still room at this meal for others.  

And where we remind ourselves that we will do this again and again and again.  Until the one who died and was raised returns.

The greatest Easter sermon ever. 

# posted by Steve @ 5:00 AM