Holy Week/Easter Reader Conclusion

The Church Calendar gives us a curriculum for discipleship. Through it Christians learn to inhabit the story of Scripture and live as students in the Way of Jesus.

As the Introduction to this Reader suggested, Christians don’t merely recall past events in Jesus’ life; we perform them. In each season of time the story of Jesus becomes the curriculum on which we learn to live as his students. Calvin appropriately called the Church the “School of Christ.” He understood that to be a good student of Jesus – to live the story of Jesus well – required a community of fellow apprentices who were learning to love God and neighbor together.

We live in a disorienting time, to be sure. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that since we are not able to gather within the four walls of our building we are not Eastminster Church. The School of Christ is still in session. We are still students of the Master Teacher, Jesus Christ. And as Holy Week and Easter remind us, we still inhabit a story that transcends any given moment in time – even the strange time of COVID-19.

This Holy Week/Easter Reader has provided us with timely reflections on what it means to be a student of Jesus. They have refocused our gaze on the story of Jesus as he journeys to the cross. And, most importantly, they have instructed us how to be skilled practitioners of Christ’s resurrection.

The Son has risen on the Eighth Day and we are now living in His light.

Soli Deo Gloria!