The jury is out: will the Mega-"churches" have Easter "services," or not? Many of them chose not to have Christmas services on Sunday, December 25, 2005. Some of the rationale was that Christmas Day was a great opportunity for families to gather, without having to bother with the trouble of going to church.
Will the same reasoning prevail with regard to Easter?
If the Mega-"churches" do have their "services" on Easter Sunday, this would pose another profound question: Why on Sunday? Why not on a Wednesday night, or some other day of the week? If the answer is, "Well, that's because Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday morning" --then this raises some more interesting queries.
If Jesus rose on the first day of the week--should not this day (Sunday) be commemorated for all time, in the New Covenant church? The answer, of course, is "yes."
If churches that took Dec. 25 off last year choose to meet on April 16 this year, (2006)--maybe this will lead them to think more clearly about the Lord, His church, and His Sabbath Day. Let's pray that it will.
The Forum for Ecclesiocentricity is designed to educate Christians and non-Christians alike to understand the Biblical teaching concerning the Church (the "Puritan" church in particular), with regard to its principal role on the earth. When this is achieved, it is hoped that the Church would then be in a better position to convey Christ's redemptive virtues to the civil government (state), and the family. (You may email me at: markjhenninger@gmail.com)
