Where’s the Body?
Read: Matthew 28:16-20
The best thing about Lent is where it’s going.
After all, Lent is our vehicle for getting to Easter; it’s most definitely not an end in itself.
It’s a time when we prepare to be shocked and delighted as we join the women at the stone rolled away from the empty tomb; as we join Peter and John seeing the wrappings in the empty tomb; as we join Mary asking the gardener, “Where is the body?”
That’s the first great question of Easter: Where is the body?
The early church could ask that question of its skeptics. It was the first great evidence of the Resurrection and our redemption: Where is the body?
Now and through the centuries after Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we – we the church – we are the body of Christ.
So it’s still the first great question, but today it’s also for the church, as believers who need to engage a hurting, broken, fallen world: Where is the body? Where is the body of Christ?
We need to ask it of ourselves, and we need to answer it to those who don’t know.
Prayer: Father, please keep us aware that we are the body of Christ, and that as His body, we are to respond to all we meet – those who know Jesus and those who don’t – in Love and Grace, and to share with them the Joy of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Charlie van Becelaere
Read: Matthew 28:16-20
The best thing about Lent is where it’s going.
After all, Lent is our vehicle for getting to Easter; it’s most definitely not an end in itself.
It’s a time when we prepare to be shocked and delighted as we join the women at the stone rolled away from the empty tomb; as we join Peter and John seeing the wrappings in the empty tomb; as we join Mary asking the gardener, “Where is the body?”
That’s the first great question of Easter: Where is the body?
The early church could ask that question of its skeptics. It was the first great evidence of the Resurrection and our redemption: Where is the body?
Now and through the centuries after Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we – we the church – we are the body of Christ.
So it’s still the first great question, but today it’s also for the church, as believers who need to engage a hurting, broken, fallen world: Where is the body? Where is the body of Christ?
We need to ask it of ourselves, and we need to answer it to those who don’t know.
Prayer: Father, please keep us aware that we are the body of Christ, and that as His body, we are to respond to all we meet – those who know Jesus and those who don’t – in Love and Grace, and to share with them the Joy of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Charlie van Becelaere
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