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Friends,
What if Easter isn't only about looking backward at what happened to Jesus?
In this clip from a longer conversation, Alexander John Shaia offers a fresh way of understanding the earliest Christian experience of Easter …
Not simply as a remembrance of the resurrection of Jesus.
BUT.
As a yearly practice of reanimating the life of Christ in the community.
For these early Christian communities, resurrection could be experienced as a renewed sense of oneness with one another and with God expressed through greater …
Vitality.
Reconciliation.
Forgiveness.
Justice.
Joy.
… and love.
Alexander John describes this as the “Great Easter”: a spiritual practice of dying to the parts of ourselves that stand in the way of deeper communion, and allowing new life to emerge within the community and then move outward into the world.
So good.
And with this, rather than simply looking back at an event in Jerusalem, Easter becomes an invitation to ask:
Where is resurrection happening in us right now and how might we carry that renewed sense of life and oneness beyond the table and into the world?
📺 - WATCH THE CLIP
Much love,
Glenn || SUPPORT / ART STUDIO
LINKS:
ALEXANDER JOHN SHAIA: https://www.quadratos.org
HEART AND MIND: https://link.amazon/B00wwfhJE
RETURNING FROM CAMINO: https://link.amazon/B01jQxLmt