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. View Point 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. S IN w vi SKEENA VALLEY FaKmens MaRKET Skeena Valley Farmers Market Will open for the 1995 SEASON SATURDAY, MAY 6 By The George Little Park Vending spaces are available, for produce and regionally crafted goods:: If you want selling space, please attend our spring meeting Thursday, April 20 7:00 pm At the amenity building 4616 in the new housing Haugland Ave. complex. For more info. phone 638-1521 See you at the Market! Phone 635-3478 Participating Kawasaki ATV retailers have got some Super Deals for you! Let the good times roll. NEID ENTERPRISES LTD. Recreational Sales and Service 4921 Keith Ave., Terrace, B.C. Some restriclions apply. See dealer for details, g RE E RESPONSI AND AVOID USE IN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSTIVE AREAS bE seater neescs a Fax 635-5050 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. Teading school assemblies, teach- society and is registered as a charity with Revenue Canada. 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