April 27,2025
This is the week after Easter and with all the build-up of Lent and activities over the Easter weekend, we are breathlessly left asking, ‘What next?’
John’s gospel frames the story of Easter in terms of the new creation beginning with echoes of Genesis 1; travelling through the passion narrative with Pilate saying, ‘Behold THE MAN’, to the ‘first day of the week’ in the garden of new creation and then the recommission of the disciples as image bearers and witnesses of the resurrection.
So the question of, ‘What next?’ is answered with ‘Now, you do it…’ Be the first of the new creation. Live as image bearers and light carriers of the good news.
We are to be the evidence of the resurrection.
How?
By how we live. By the grace we show. By walking like Jesus. By being disciples.
Proofs of Jesus resurrection are good and ground our faith in the realities of actual history. But there are no shortcuts to convincing people. Let me repeat: there are no shortcuts to convincing people. The greatest proof according to Jesus is this: “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13 v. 35).
May God empower us to be witnesses to the resurrected Jesus in the coming weeks and months…
Julian Holdsworth
BSBC Pastor
