This sermon is about a man who died and came back to life. Not just any man, but the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Jesus is not just an idea. Nor do we merely follow his teachings. It is essential for the Christian faith that Jesus was a real person who walked the earth. He had a public ministry and a public execution. But after that, he had a public resurrection. The entirety of the New Testament is written either by those who saw him alive after being crucified, or those who came to faith by their eyewitness testimony. Christianity is a religion rooted in history yet we also want to see that Christianity is a religion driven by preaching.
