B6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 12, 1995

Easter— not just bunnies and eggs.

By Darcy McAlister
Pentecostal Church
LAST NIGHT I succumbed to
Disney’s marketing pressure and
watched The Lion King. I was
moved as I watched Mufasa work
his way through the herd of
Stampeding wildebeests and suve
his son Simba from certain death.
He risked and eventually Jost his

life for his son.

This upcoming weekend the
Christian world will celebrate
Easter. Our North American cul-
ture has, for the most part, de-
cided to spend Easter hunting for
little chocolate eggs and large
chocolate bunnies.

In fact, Harrods” (the famous
London department store) has a
six foot egg for ‘‘that special
someone” one sale, The price is
only the Canadian equivalent of
$5500, Somewhere along the way
we have forgotten the very real
saciifice Jesus made for us.

Jesus, God’s only Son, gave his
life for us 2000 years ago on a
cross. Unlike The Lion King, the
story of the cross is not just a
well-written story but fact.

Let me take you back to the cir-
cumstances of that first Easter.

God is a perfect and holy God.
He cannot accept sin; therefore,
he must pass judgement on sin.

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The Bible teaches that we are all
sinners and I have yet to mect a
perfect person (although my wife
comesclose),

Because of these two facts, we
Must pay the consequences for

The really exciting thing about
that first Baster is that three days
after Jesus died He rose from the
dead, He defeated death. This
enables us to have a personal re-
lationship with God and ta tave

You see, like Simba, we have been facing certain
death and now we have been rescued. Mufasa
died and the relationship with Simba ended.

our sit, The good thing is that
God is also a God of grace, He
did a favour that we definitely did
not merit. by sending. His only
Son to earth to die for us,

Jesus was perfect in every way,
even though He faced the same
life situations that we face. In
spite of that, He took on our con-
sequences, took our punishment
and died ia our place.

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eternal life in heaven.
Baster is therefore much more

than eggs and rabbits to me, It is.

a celebration of life that I don’t
deserve to have and the remem-
bering of the sacrifice that Jesus
made for mankind.

You see, like Simba, we have
been facing certain death and
now we have been rescued,
Mufasa died and the relationship
with Simba ended,

Jesus died but He rose again to .

continue our relationship with

Him ina new and vital way.

I once asked a teenager ifhe be- |

lieve in God. his reply was
simple. “‘I believe in everything
about God and Jesus but I don’t
believe that Jesus came alive
again,”

The fact that Christ tose from

the dead is:.the crux of what.

Christians belicve.

-This past month I was*in-En-.

gland as a part ofa ministry team

ing religious education classes,

and making presentations in their:

high schools, As a part of our
Presentation we performed. a
drama to Foreigner’s gong, 7
Warna Know What Love fs. In
the drama we depicted Christ’s
death on the cross and then his
subsequent resurrection." -

Each time we reached that point
in the drama, the audience of four
to five hundred boisterous stu-
dents would be silent.

Even today, regardless of back-
ground, people are moved by the
wilimate act of love that Christ
demonstrated for us,

This Easter, in the middle of the

“marketing mayhem take some

time to reflect on the act of love
that we celebrate at Easter.

The above column is one in a
series of articles from the Terrace
Ministerial Association and ex-
presses the views of the author.

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