Jesus is for everyone
This Read the passage and the intro below.
The first way that Easter outlives the holidays, is becuase Easter makes Jesus avalible for everyone.
It’s hard for us to imagine, but before the first Easter, Jesus and his gospel were not accessible to many people at all. Not because they didn’t have email and cell phones to spread the message, but because Jesus and his gospel was really only for Jewish people. If you were a gentile (a non Jew) then Jesus and what he had to offer was more or less out of reach. The coming of the kingdom of God was an announcement and invitation, first and foremost for Israel.
It’s hard for us to imagine, but before the first Easter, Jesus and his gospel were not accessible to many people at all. Not because they didn’t have email and cell phones to spread the message, but because Jesus and his gospel was really only for Jewish people. If you were a gentile (a non Jew) then Jesus and what he had to offer was more or less out of reach. The coming of the kingdom of God was an announcement and invitation, first and foremost for Israel.
And yet the most famous words Jesus spoke after His Easter work had been completed were:
‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, so go and make disciples of all nations.’ ALL NATIONS
It is Easter that makes Christianity an international, multiracial and multicultural religion.
Easter is the reason you don’t have to become a Jew in order to become a Christian.
‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, so go and make disciples of all nations.’ ALL NATIONS
It is Easter that makes Christianity an international, multiracial and multicultural religion.
Easter is the reason you don’t have to become a Jew in order to become a Christian.
Easter bursts the bubble of the Jewish priority during Jesus' 33 earthly years.
More to come
Scott
3 comments:
Yes! In principle (Matt 28 etc). But in practice, its the Council of Jerusalem figuring all that out (Acts 15 etc).
Looking forward to this.
Sure - good point. I guess I was thinking about the theological moment rather than it's earth-time outworkings.
Good call
You are exactly right.
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