He is Risen!
He is Risen, Indeed!
This ancient call and response - known as the “paschal greeting” - is a familiar Easter tradition. But why do we say this? What do we mean, what do we understand when we say these words?
When the sun dawned on Easter morning, no human yet grasped that reality had fundamentally changed - a shift in history, in the fabric of the universe had occurred. But the moment we begin reading the last chapter of Luke, we start to get hints of this changed reality - a change so momentous, that those who first encounter it do not see it - they need divine assistance to “open their eyes.”
But as this new reality dawns - oh my - it shakes the foundations of the world. Human assumptions about reality must fundamentally change as Jesus’s resurrected body has fundamentally changed.
Join us for the Sunday after Easter - as we walk with the women to the tomb and two disciples on the road to Emmaus and experience with them the reality that when the Risen Lord comes into our life, nothing will ever again be the same!
