Living What We Sang

Pop Quiz, one question.

1. Is Easter over?

Short Answer: No.

Longer Answer: Easter is intended to be more that just one day.  Lent was a season that preceded Easter for 40 days not counting Sundays.  Then came Easter.  Now we’re in The Great Fifty Days of Easter.

Explanation: Church history tells us that Easter Season was initially a time of continuing the teaching and training that began in Lent.  People who had been baptized on Easter Sunday were now ready for both practical and doctrinal instruction.  At the end of these Great Fifty Days, on Pentecost Sunday, they were commissioned for Christian service in the world.

That’s a good process to remember.

And what’s at the center?  Easter.

And who’s at the center?  The Resurrected Christ.

It’s Easter Monday.  Let’s live what we sang about yesterday.  Ready?