Hurray for Easter! (I think...)

Ok. This is not intended to be a long blog (of course none of them are, right?)... but I have to semi-rant a minute.

Mostly I'm just complaining because of all the extra stuff I gotta do this week for "Easter Sunday" services. At least that's what got me thinking about this... but it really goes much deeper.

And I'm gonna ask a question that will make many of you think this preacher has lost his mind...

Why on earth do we celebrate Easter as some extra-special day? Don't get me wrong. I'm a PREACHER - I've read the Bible - I KNOW what HAPPENED on the 1st Easter (I prefer Resurrection Day) is of ultra-importance. But here is my gripe. We are not - and we need to be - celebrating the resurrection of Jesus EVERY day.

Oh, we claim to celebrate it at least every Sunday. Sunday is "the Lord's Day".

Guess what? It wasn't "the Lord's Day" (at least no more than every day is already the Lord's...) until Jesus arose from the grave on it. THAT is precisely the reason we - the church - gather on Sunday.

Sunday is not the "sabbath"

It wasn't chosen cause most folks are off work that day (at least they used to be).

But the church began meeting on the first day of the week (not the weekEND) because EVERY Sunday - all 52 of them (and sometimes 53) are to be celebrations of Jesus' resurrection.

My beef - really - is not with the excitement and preparations of Resurrection Day. It is that we are not as excited and prepared to serve a risen Savior - not just every Sunday - but every day f our lives.

Let's think about that this week.