From Little Thurrock

Every Sunday is an Easter

 

Dear Friends

As we come into Holy Week and the Easter season we remember again the extraordinary events of the first Easter that lie at the heart of our faith.  As St Paul wrote, “If Christ has not been raised then our faith is
in vain.”   Some people today still try to explain it all away.  ‘It was an illusion’, ‘He was not really dead’ or ‘They went to the wrong tomb’ they would say.  Yet all the authorities had to do was to produce his body and the lie would have been exposed.

 

The fact was that fearful cowering men hiding behind locked doors were changed into dynamic messengers who travelled the world.  It was not merely seeing Jesus that changed them, although that was stunning in itself.  It was the presence of his Holy Spirit in their lives as sent at
Pentecost that gave them the courage, the wisdom and the desire to
go boldly out and tell people about Jesus.

 

They were so confident that Jesus had been raised to life that they started to celebrate his resurrection by meeting together every Sunday.  The Jews had always met for worship on the Sabbath, on Saturday, yet within a very short time of Pentecost this had changed for the friends of Jesus. 
So now we celebrate Easter every Sunday.  Every Sunday we remember that Jesus was raised to new life.  Every Sunday we are reminded that
he completed the work of our redemption through his death.  And every Sunday we are reminded that because he was raised we too will be raised to new life when this life is over.  Every Sunday is a day of celebration; an Easter.

 

Have a really blessed Easter Season.

 

Christine Williams

Grays Thurrock Team Ministry

The Team

 

Clergy & Leadership Team

 

St Peter & St Paul’s
Town Centre Grays Thurrock

 

St Mary’s

Dock Road Little Thurrock

 

St Clement’s

London Road West Thurrock

 

All Saints’

The Beacon Centre
Chafford Hundred