Crossroads Church Easter 2015!

Saturday afternoon I thought the day might be special. Little did I know how special it would be? We all like to be a part of a big crowd. There is an energy and excitement that comes from a group of people gathered in one place and Sunday was that with at last count 124 in attendance. That is close to a record in the Tabernacle on Easter Sunday.

The day included my greatest honor of baptizing four precious children of God Brandy Ellis, Jami Bassett, Joshua Bassett and JD Barnes. Their public profession of faith in Jesus as their Savior and Lord. That is a delight no matter how wet I get. My shirt was wet but not near like my pants from the knee down. My pants and shirt were dry by the end of the service. However, I think my shoes are still drying. Now is the time for us who witnessed their declaration to step up, pray for and walk with them in this new path following Jesus as disciples. They have just started!

In the one service we shared the four symbols of our faith. Baptism, Lord's Supper, Cross and the Empty Tomb all in the same package. It has not been often that I have considered all four in the same service. They are the package. The symbols of our faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord. They are not our faith or our salvation they are symbols. Powerful and problematic as they challenge us once again to consider who Jesus was and is to us. The bow of the package is the Empty Tomb. It alone proves His words true. It brings hope to dark troubled lives if we believe. All of creation had been groaning for relief from sin. In one long planned sacrifice, all sin is forgiven. A plan geminated at the first bite of the forbidden fruit in the Garden so long ago, a woman deceived by evil. Sin entered the word at that first bite. A plan ever playing out until one bright morning when woman discover a tomb empty, no body and an angel with clarification. Their task is to go and tell the disciples, a woman now is the first to testify as to the resurrection of Jesus, the HOPE of redemption from the act so long ago. The wrong of so long ago perpetrated by Eve is now brought full circle to be righted and the first to go and tell are the Daughters of Eve. That is life full circle. That is THE story for every person who trusts Christ as Savior and then Lord.

HE is RISEN!

He is Risen INDEED!



In HIS Service and Yours
Bro G