Often referred to as the Lord’s day. If I were to ask my students, to write an essay on the Lord’s day. I would get a lot of blank looks. But if, I were to ask them to write an essay about Easter. The blank looks would disappear, and I would see from their expressions, lets get on with it. And they’d be all over the map, describing Easter.

The response I want from a body of students, who mostly describe themselves as Christians, is a description of what Easter Sunday represents. From a Christ perspective and absent all the secular addictions. Every Sunday, when people pack churches, this is what they are celebrating.

It’s found in the book of Romans and represents the most pronounced gift ever bestowed upon humanity. Here it is, “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven. And whose sins are covered, blessed are the people to whom the LORD shall not impute sin,” Romans 4:7-8. And that is what church going is all about, making it a day like no other and repeated every Sunday. One of two Christ rituals, we celebrate weekly. The other being the sabbath which was discussed Friday, 23 July 2010.

One other comment about a day like no other. It’s found in Zechariah with a series of words that I often recall, but especially on a Sunday. “…; they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn,” Zechariah 12:10.

I know that the celebration of Resurrection Sunday became necessary because of me. And now that Romans 4:7-8 are mine. I observe the day with a sense of bitterness because the day is often made pretty with trivialities and not with a sense of loss. As though the congregates had lost a firstborn son.

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