When you are an eyewitness to some event, some happening, it really can change you. I can talk about being in a car accident, but if I have never been in a car accident then I really don’t completely understand all of the feelings. The feeling of hopeless realization this is really happening. the shock , the panic, the pain etc. unless you have been in one you don’t really understand.

The disciples experienced the most incredible week. From the grand entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through trial, torcher, crucifixion and ultimately resurrection, I cannot imagine the roller coaster. I bet they were an emotional mess! I would have been.

Still it was their front row seat, their eyewitness accounts that added so much credibility to the whole proclamation of Jesus and the resurrection. The Holy Spirit came down in power and took those eyewitness accounts as fuel for the movement of Christianity across the known world and ultimately across the entire globe. The gospel was proclaimed everywhere, and everywhere it was proclaimed it changed everything.

Has the resurrection changed you?

This week we will see how it changed the early church and hopefully you can answer that very question.

See you at church.

Pastor Chris