What's the Point of Holy Week?
Welcome into God's time! I'm writing to invite you to invite you into the opportunities we have this weekend to "re-enter" the story of salvation history: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.
The Christian calendar is marked by holy days that help us remember that all time is God's time. We observe these days as a means of community discipleship. As we re-enter (and even reenact) the story of Jesus, from the Last Supper sharing the Passover Meal to Easter Sunday celebrating Christ's victory over death, we are reminded that Christian faith is about about floating up to heaven after we die but about the God who came to earth and is coming back again to raise us from the dead! Jesus is the conclusion of human history, the destiny of all creation.
We are living between the times, where faith is not merely a mental ascent but a daily embodiment, as we improvise our role as supporting characters in the second to last chapter of the story of salvation history, the story of Jesus!
Welcome into God's time! I'm writing to invite you to invite you into the opportunities we have this weekend to "re-enter" the story of salvation history: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.
The Christian calendar is marked by holy days that help us remember that all time is God's time. We observe these days as a means of community discipleship. As we re-enter (and even reenact) the story of Jesus, from the Last Supper sharing the Passover Meal to Easter Sunday celebrating Christ's victory over death, we are reminded that Christian faith is about about floating up to heaven after we die but about the God who came to earth and is coming back again to raise us from the dead! Jesus is the conclusion of human history, the destiny of all creation.
We are living between the times, where faith is not merely a mental ascent but a daily embodiment, as we improvise our role as supporting characters in the second to last chapter of the story of salvation history, the story of Jesus!
Passover Meal | APRIL 2nd, 6PM
Thursday evening we we will gather to feast together with a traditional Passover meal, but we will do so in light of its fulfillment in Jesus. We will remember that the same God who rescued his people out of slavery in Egypt, has acted once for all in Jesus Christ to rescue all people out of slavery to sin, delivering us from death! Passover is no longer about the lamb on the table but about the Lamb at the Table. "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (Jn. 1:29).



