When You Can’t Find Words (Matthew 28:1-10)

Douglass Church - Douglass Blvd Christian Church

But the real question to us is, “Now that you’ve got this shiny new resurrection, what’re you going to do with it? Are you going to hang out with it, set up a shrine to it and serve lattes, thinking all the work’s been done two thousand years ago? Or are you going to realize that the freedom the resurrection brings is the freedom to back out of the tomb, walk down the road, and get back to work?”

You see, it’s not that the resurrection isn’t cause for celebration; it’s that we’ve misunderstood celebration. It’s too easy to think that it means release from duty, a time to set down our work and head to the party. But the story of the gospel is that resurrection doesn’t free us from labor; it offers us labor worth giving our lives for. We find our greatest joy, our greatest expression of celebration, in the work we’re entrusted to do.

What work is that?

Why, it’s a continuation of the work that Jesus himself did—healing the sick, feeding the hungry, setting free the captives—remembering the forgotten.

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