Easter
“Scripture – the Old and the New Testaments – is the story of creation and new creation. Within that, it is the story of covenant and new covenant. When we read the scriptures as Christians, we read it precisely as people of the new covenant and of the new creation. We do not read it, in other words, as a flat, uniform list of regulations or doctrines. We read it as the narrative in which we ourselves are now called to take part. We read it to discover “the story so far” and also “how it’s supposed to end.” To put it in another way, we live somewhere between the end of Acts and the closing scene of Revelation. If we want to understand scripture and to find it doing its proper work in and through us, we must learn to read and understand it in the light of that overall story.”
“Our task in the present [...] is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and foretaste of the second.”
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, HarperOne, 2008, 281 & 30.
Marc Chagall, Easter, 1968.
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