I’m not exactly sure why, but this has always been one of my favorite passages of Scripture. I guess it’s because I think it’s often overlooked in our churches. Every Easter we talk a lot about the death of Jesus. We hear his teachings in Sunday School. But how often do we really talk about the resurrection? Yet Paul makes it clear in this chapter that the resurrection is essential to the gospel. It may be the most important discussion we have in our church each week. It’s also one of the most easily passed over truths in today’s world. Of all the things we teach as Christians, the resurrection is one of the things that absolutely cannot be true if we don’t have a worldview that accepts the miraculous. Our scientific minds of today don’t like it at all.
But I hope we never forget that the resurrection is the core of our faith — it’s the reason for Easter. May we proclaim that until we die.
