It is Easter. A time when people all over the world celebrate. Some celebrate the Easter bunny, with family traditions hiding chocolate eggs or painting colored pictures on hard boiled eggs. Others have survived a tradition of giving up something for Lent and are relieved they can start eating chocolate again. Others simply celebrate a long weekend and an extra day off work.
As Christian leaders, what do you celebrate and recognize? How is Easter different for you, your family and your church? Does your community even know that you celebrate Easter, remembering a risen Christ?
At church this week, you will have the usual once a year Easter visitors. You will have people who are searching. Searching for something different, something internal and something that lasts for more than the weekend.
This is a great week to review the basics. Take another look, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:16-17).
Our world, our Nation, your community, your neighbors and your friends need Christ.
You see, it is because He lives in me and we have a relationship that I can and will face the future with confidence.
As Leaders this weekend, do everything you can to remember and talk about the babe in the manger and the Christ on the cross. You can’t have one without the other. Christ came to seek and save.
Leadership is celebrating the reality that Christ was born, lived, was crucified on a cross and rose again for you!
Yours in Service,