PSA 08 April 2012 Easter Sunday and Confirmation

Ken Howcroft. “Christ is Risen!”. Why have we come here today? What are we looking for? If you are looking for irrefutable evidence that Jesus has been raised which will enable you to say “Oh thank goodness for that, now I know that it is true” and then enable you to walk out of this place and then live the rest of your life just like you did before, you are going to be sadly disappointed.  The resurrection is not something that you can argue people into believing. The early Christians experienced it as true. The Easter message they pass on to us is a call to follow Jesus, to say the sort of thing he said and do the sort of thing he did; to be his body in the world. It is then that we shall know him. We are called not to believe 600 impossible things and strange doctrines before breakfast but to commit ourselves with all our weaknesses and failings to follow Jesus as best we can, knowing that as we do he will be with us and that he is risen indeed! A sermon for Easter Sunday, when two members of the congregation were confirmed. The readings were 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and Mark 16:1-8.