04-15-25

ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS 
April 15, 2025
Saturday was Passover for our Jewish siblings, and we need to remember that most of the main characters we find in the Gospels were Jewish. That includes Jesus, and I’m certain he had been celebrating Passover all of his life. This week, we will focus our attention on the last Passover Jesus celebrated with his followers before he was crucified. It would have been like any special holiday, as the crowd in Jerusalem would have been full of energy and anticipation. It was a time to remember, celebrate, and reenact the time in which God liberated a people who were enslaved in Egypt. As we look at it 2,000 years later, through the lens of Christian history, I believe it is important to see a correlation between Israel’s liberation from slavery and Jesus’ act of liberating love. If there is a direct correlation, how exactly are we continuing to reveal God’s liberating love for all those who are experiencing real situations of slavery or subjugation? 

What are you prepared to demonstrate in this moment, Lord God? How will your liberating love come alive in this Holy Week? For every person who feels the weight of someone else’s boot, we pray for the liberating love we know to come alive in such a way that it truly liberates those who are feeling stuck, pushed down, manipulated, or oppressed! We pray for our faith and your hope to unite in this good work! Amen.