Sunday was a great day! It is certainly not unusual for us to have a few more folks on Easter Sunday than we do during the rest of the year. But it is VERY unusual for us to have 100 extra folks! That is a lot more if your membership is 500, but when your membership is 200, that is a while lot more. We kept the ushers busy! I'm glad all those people were there and the Fire Marshal wasn't!
I think several things combined to create the overflow crowd. There were some still in town visiting after Antoine and Ivy's wedding on Saturday. And we had more folks visiting from out of town than we had visiting out of town (maybe because the kids weren't out of school since spring break doesn't follow Easter this year). But mostly I think we had members who invited people to come to church with them and stay for the egg hunt and potluck afterward. And many did! Cathy is still busy typing up all the "glad you were there" letters.
Since we're talking about Easter, check out this article by Anne Rice reflecting on Easter. You may recognize Anne Rice as the author of the dozens of books, including Interview with a Vampire (made into the movie with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt). Several years ago, Rice returned to her faith and rededicated her writing career to Christ. Her current series is entitled Christ the Lord, and she just released the second volume, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. She concludes her article talking about the Gospel as "the great inversion."
I think several things combined to create the overflow crowd. There were some still in town visiting after Antoine and Ivy's wedding on Saturday. And we had more folks visiting from out of town than we had visiting out of town (maybe because the kids weren't out of school since spring break doesn't follow Easter this year). But mostly I think we had members who invited people to come to church with them and stay for the egg hunt and potluck afterward. And many did! Cathy is still busy typing up all the "glad you were there" letters.
Since we're talking about Easter, check out this article by Anne Rice reflecting on Easter. You may recognize Anne Rice as the author of the dozens of books, including Interview with a Vampire (made into the movie with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt). Several years ago, Rice returned to her faith and rededicated her writing career to Christ. Her current series is entitled Christ the Lord, and she just released the second volume, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. She concludes her article talking about the Gospel as "the great inversion."
As we experience Easter week, we celebrate the crucifixion that changed the world. We celebrate the Resurrection that sent Christ’s apostles throughout the Roman Empire to declare the Good News. We celebrate one of the greatest love stories the world has ever known: that of a God who would come down here to live and breathe with us in a human body, who would experience human death for us, and then rise to remind us that He was, and is, both Human and Divine. We celebrate the greatest inversion the world has ever recorded: that of the Maker dying on a Roman cross.
Let us celebrate as well that throughout this troubled world in which we live, billions believe in this 2,000-year-old love story and in this great inversion -- and billions seek to trust the Maker to bring us to one another in love as He brings us to Himself.
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