may 2019
first baptist church greensboro
c o nn e c t i o n s Emphasizing worship, spiritual development, fellowship, and ministry to our city and our world.
An image taken from the sky at the end of the service as the cross was carried to the steps. Thanks to Scott Lyle for capturing great footage.
O
ur intimate experience as a church family is repeated in the evidence all about us. We have friends and family who are struggling for life. We grieve parents. Worry about children. We feel despair over the state of our world. We are weighed down by the suffering seemingly reaching to the ends of the earth. Innocent people die. Powerful people collude and corrupt at the expense of the most vulnerable. Systems and instruments of death dominate the lives of God’s beloved children. We wonder, does the fate of this world really matter? Jesus is not behind a stone or bound by the limits of those who put it there. He’s been raised and is calling us to join him. He is not here. We have to go out and find him. We have to seek him out beyond the limits
of our imagining. We have to see in new ways, and expect what we’ve never thought possible. And when we thought it was all over, and it’s all we could do to gather enough of our strength to carry the spices to the gravesite, just to make sure the tomb was sealed and the body contained. Just to start to come to grips with life without him. Just to start to resign ourselves to this world where our best hopes seem to die and stay dead, we hear it once more:
“He’s not here. He is risen.”
Words from the Sermon, “A New Life of Love,” preached by Alan Sherouse Easter 2019.
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