*sigh...*

Well, no one commented on my previous post so I guess that means that my social experiment was a failure. But hey, at least I wasn't being graded on it :)

As for this past Sunday, we had our final combined Sunday school group. Next Sunday there will be NO Sunday school due to a heavy Easter schedule. So, I hope that everyone will take the time to have their own form of family Sunday school or devotions or some sort of spiritual conversation.

Being that this previous Sunday was the Sunday before Easter (traditionally - "Palm Sunday") we discussed "pre-Easter protocol." We discussed the fact that most every church in America will see a swelling of their congregation on Easter Sunday. We talked about the many potential reasons leading to this remarkable event; whether it be tradition or obligation or social pressure. But regardless of the reason, people will be going to church on Easter.

So, we inquired, what's so special about Easter? Why do hundreds of thousands of typically un-churched individuals wined up in the pews of most American churches?

Well for the un-churched, a lot of times that's just what people do on Easter Sunday - they go to church. See, there's still some lingering religious notion in a lot of people's minds that Easter is a famed day to go to church.

However, it is not how people perceive Easter that makes it so special, but what took place on that faithful day more than 2000 years ago. It's the events of Easter that make the day famous, not popular opinion and recognition. Thus, we took a step back to look broadly at the event of the whole Easter drama. We gazed up at the stage of history to view its grand center piece, that old rugged Roman cross and Him who hung upon it. We sought to see Jesus and His cross and how it prepares us for the glories of Easter Sunday.

So, we looked at Colossians 1:13-20. We noted that the text tells us plainly both who Jesus is and what He has done. The text makes no buts about the truth that Jesus is God. He is also Creator and Sustainer of all things, both on earth and in heaven. Thus, He is preeminent above all things! As such, He is the only one able to carry out the great purpose of God, the redemption of all things! Because a great rift had come between God and man because of sin, something had to be done. Sin has made us enemies of God. Thus, upon the cross, peace and reconciliation were made between God and man through the God/man, Jesus Christ.

Therefore, we have to understand this amazing act of history or we will never fully grasp the reality of Easter. If we fail to grasp the reality of Easter then we cannot and will not be affected and changed by it. And if this be our state, then we have no more claim to salvation and eternity than those who will flood our churches Easter Sunday, who have no clue of the power of God unto salvation.

Therefore, I beg and implore all who read this to ask yourself, in the deep recesses of your heart, "what's so important about Easter and the events surrounding it?"

For His Kingdom...