Pastoral Message

Dear Flock,

As I write this it is cold outside.  It has been cloudy most days.  People are getting restless.  Spring can’t come fast enough.   
  
I’m going to take a gamble.  By the time you read this, we’ll really be on the verge of if not birthed into the new season.     

The same will be in Church.  We’re on the verge of Holy Week and the great fifty days of Easter.   During this time, the church reflects on the power of resurrection….what it means for daily living, for the soul, for everlasting life, for the entire cosmos.  We’ll sing Easter hymns with all their alleluias and we’ll hear stories about the resurrected Christ and the emerging of the early Church. 

Dorothy L. Sayers, the great lay theologian from mid-last-century, suggests that it is wise that the Church has never nailed down an absolute definition of resurrection or attempted an all-encompassing authoritarian description of Christ’s raised body.  By leaving it open, by not explaining it to death, it leaves a lot open to imagination, to possibilities.

You and your Church are heirs to the imaginative Easter possibilities.  You are Jesus’ people, here and now, who live in the light of the resurrection.  May the power of life, the power of resurrection, be profoundly present in your lives this season in whatever way it needs to be. 

Yours,

Pastor Dan