He is Risen! Happy Easter LifeWay family! Though we cannot celebrate in person this year we can still rejoice and worship our risen God and Savior together.
Call to Worship
Here is our Easter Call to Worship.
Play the following song.
You can sing along with the lyrics on the video or simply use it as a time of reflection.
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Easter Reading:
Follow along in Matthew 28 as our worship team reads one of the Easter Gospel accounts.
Play the following song.
You can sing along with the lyrics on the video or simply use it as a time of reflection.
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Scripture Reading
Choose a member of your home gathering to read the following passage aloud.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. - Romans 6:4-14
Play the following song.
You can sing along with the lyrics on the video or simply use it as a time of reflection.
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Pastoral Challenge
Scripture Reading
Choose a member of your home gathering to read the following passage aloud.
As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!” But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them.
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. - Luke 24:36-48
Corporate Prayer
Here are 3 things to consider and pray over from today's challenge and our current state of events. You can assign each of these to a different person, or have someone pray for all of them.
3 Prayer Items:
Thank God for the resurrection of Jesus, particularly how it reminds us that the powers of the virus, the economy, and the State are limited.
Thank God for our union with Christ so that we receive what he has accomplished (Rom 6:5).
Pray for the grace to 'consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God' through Jesus (Rom 6:11).
Closing Song
You can sing along with the lyrics on the video or simply use it as a time of reflection.
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