Posted by
Billy on Friday, April 22, 2011 10:10:20 PM
Easter
and Christmas are two holidays that typically draw Christians to church. But one
pastor believes that's the wrong place for believers to celebrate Resurrection
Sunday.
Rev. Eric Foley is author of The Whole Life
Offering and pastor of Doers of The Word Evangelical Church, which
meets simultaneously in Colorado Springs and in Seoul, Korea. He says the Bible
suggests the proper place to celebrate Easter is on the road.
He
references Matthew 28:7, where the angel tells the "women who come to anoint
Jesus' body [to] 'go quickly [and] tell his disciples he's risen from the dead,
and behold, he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him.'" From
that, he decides that "if we want to be faithful Christians at Easter, then the
way that we truly celebrate Easter isn't to dress in our fine clothes...gather
together for a worship service, and then...go home and eat with our family
members, but we ought to be able to go. It's almost as if it's best if there's a
sign on the [locked] church door...that says, 'He is risen, and he's gone ahead
of you out into your community, and that's where you will meet him.'
(Pastor: Spend Easter
'on the road')
)