St. Andrew's United Methodist Church, Lacey, Washington

04.29.2021 Devotional

People of God,

-What difference has Easter made in our lives?

-How has the Resurrection of Christ impacted and shaped us?

The disciple Peter and the apostle Paul seem to feel that the Resurrection should remake us. It should give us new lives.

Paul says, ‘ We have been buried with Christ by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life’. Romans 6:4

Peter says the resurrection of Christ gives us “a new birth into a new life.” So, what does this new life look like, what are the characteristics, and how will we know if we’ve found it?

Neither Peter nor Paul spell it out for us. They do give us clues, but like a lot things in our faith, we have to each figure it out for ourselves. But we can work on this together, as a community of faith.

Here’s what I came up with this week. I’m going to call us Easter People, meaning people who believe in the Resurrection of Christ and strive to have their lives influenced, changed and shaped by the Resurrection of Christ. (Click here to read the full Devontional)

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