Today I preached my fifth sermon as the Interim Senior Minister of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in downtown Fort Worth, Texas (you can learn more about this new role here).
Sermon
My Easter message, “Living as Easter People” is based on Matthew 28:1-10.
You can watch the sermon below or read the manuscript.
Excerpt
Theologians have amazingly complex and largely unsatisfying answers to all of these questions and to others we might ask. There is not one right answer to any question in part because the biblical accounts don’t tell us this part of the story.
This morning our goal must not be to explain how the Resurrection happened, but to understand what Jesus’ Resurrection means for us.
George Mason, the recently retired long-time senior minister of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, helps us begin moving in that direction when he writes:
“We are not here for a history lesson on what exactly happened that Sunday morning at the tomb. You will not believe in the resurrection of Jesus any more than Mary would have if the same thing does not happen to you that happened to her. Because Christ is free from the grave, he is free to free you from the grave and to meet you unexpectedly along the ordinary paths of your life.[1]
That kind of resurrection is not something we analyze from a distance. It is something we encounter.
[1] George Mason. “Christ on the Loose.” Available from https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf20025eb/christ_on_the_loose
