DINING WITH SINNERS
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What's so "good" about Friday
Bob Hyatt reminded me this morning that:
Good Friday ruined the first disciples’ weekend. Maybe we should allow it to ruin ours, as well. For them it felt like the end of the world. Maybe we could pretend, even for a day, that’s it’s the end of ours, too—that while what Jesus went through on our behalf is something to be celebrated, it’s also something to be mourned, to be anguished about, to grieve.
Bob exhorts us to allow “the grief to seep deep down into your bones, into your bowels. Meditate on the wounds, the suffering, and the deep, deep love of Christ.
This Friday brings communion into a whole new perspective. As often as we “celebrate” the Lord’s Supper, do we really reflect on and remember Jesus’ suffering? Or has it become for us another ritual? In this act of remembrance are you ruined?
And as Bob concludes, “as the sun rises on Sunday, [maybe they] will finally know what Easter is all about.”
Michael Carpenter
Michael is an urban church planter in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock. He and his wife Amanda have been married since 2003 and have two children – Austin and Max. Michael is an entrepreneur, missiologist, and chef.
Hello there, Happy Easter!!