In his Easter sermon, our pastor made two especially powerful points.
First, he asked for a show of hands of those who could remember 9/11. He continued: Suppose you wrote down your recollection of the basic events of that day, and those accounts were all collected and put in a time capsule. Two thousand years later, that time capsule was opened and the accounts read. Question: Would they be less believable on that date than they were on the day they were written, simply because of the passage of time? The answer is No, of course, and you see where he was headed with this: That is what we have with the Gospels and with Paul’s statement in I Corinthians 15:3-8 about the many eyewitnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection. The events of 9/11 are about the same distance in the past for us as the events on Calgary and its aftermath were for those writing much of the New Testament.
Second, our pastor quoted Jesus’ promise in Revelation 3:20: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Jesus, in other words, wants to be with us, even eat with us — the Lord of the Universe wants to do life with us! How wonderful is that?
It was a great sermon.