Holy Week
Our friend, Brad Watson, rightly noted that, “We’re about to embark on perhaps the strangest and best Easter of our lives. It will be an Easter without large brunches, egg hunts, and large worship services. In fact, it will be an Easter of sheltering in place, rising infection numbers, live-stream services…, and news from around the world of lives cut short.
We’re in a historic moment. It’s hard to grasp, but 9/11 has been supplanted as the most life-altering event of my lifetime. The world is and will be different now. For many of us, the world is more dangerous. The world is more feeble. The world is less reliable. We look to the carnage of human life and it might be easy to wonder this year: What’s the point of Easter?
“Easter’s claim is Jesus breaks the human cycle of destruction.”
One question you might have is “Why?” What’s the point of the resurrection? Is it just a way of getting attention? Was it meant to prove something? To get at the “why” of the resurrection, we need to consider it as part of a larger narrative—a bigger story.”
Join us this Holy Week as we dive headlong into answering these questions. You can find our schedule of Online Gatherings below.
For Maundy Thursday, we’ll be gathering together to walk through this inaugural meal that Christ instituted for his Church. We’ll be exploring how this meal ties everything that is about take place to the entirety of the Biblical Narrative that precedes it.
We’d love to have you join us as we reflect on the final evening before Christ was arrested and crucified this Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 PM
For Good Friday we’ll be joining in with our brothers and sisters of Refuge Christian Fellowship. We’ll be walking through the story of the crucifixion together as we contemplate the reality-altering event that defeated sin.
If you’re looking to be a part of a Good Friday service online, please join us this Friday, April 10, at 8:30 PM.
We’ve already noted that this Easter will look different than it ever has in history. Millions, perhaps even billions, will gather online to stream Easter Services. And though it’s okay to grieve that we cannot gather together in person, we can still celebrate that our Lord is indeed risen and we can still do so via digital technology.
If you don’t have a church that you belong to, we’d love to have you join our Easter Livestream. Tune in on Sunday Morning, April 12, at 10:30 AM.