Pastor’s Perspective

From Advent through Christmas to Epiphany to Lent and Easter, we focus on the high holy days of the Christian calendar. We prepare for the big events surrounding Jesus' birth and His death and resurrection. During Advent and Lent we reflect on our lives, our faith, and our living as we participate in the journey through those quick and crowded months.

But now we are in the season of Easter. Jesus is risen and has been going around surprising His disciples with spontaneous visits that disrupt their feelings about themselves and their time with Him. His visits disrupt even their ideas about what they will do in the future. This is not a time of summing up Jesus' ministry or concluding what it all meant. It's not a time for reflecting backward into the past.

The Easter season is a time of transition from the spiritual journey we've been on that only required us to watch, listen to a time of action. This season will end at Pentecost at which point the Holy Spirit will be behind everything that happens. We will live the Reformed Protestant motto that we are reformed and always being reformed by God's Spirit.

Transition is disruption of our expectations and assumptions, our comforts, presumptions of our purpose. It's a time for us to fold our napkins and push back from the communion table and venture into the darkness with a lamp that shines the grace of Christ into the world.

 Allen