Last Friday my article “What Christians Get Wrong About the Easter Story” was published onRelevant‘s website. Be sure to check it out and join the almost 600 people who have shared it on social media. An excerpt:
There is a temptation to then shift the focus from the death to the resurrection, from one central point to another. If we have the Cross as the center of our spiritual lives and focus for so long, the natural response if we want to shift the focus is to just start emphasizing the resurrection over the Cross. We can change from “cling to the Cross” to “cling to the resurrection” kind of people. But this is to just oscillate between two parts of the story.
To properly focus on these climactic events that shaped Christian history, we need to re-train ourselves to think about the death and the resurrection of Christ not as two separate and climactic events but as one single event, one climax in the Passion narrative: death and resurrection together.