It was really lovely to see so many people in church yesterday to celebrate our Lord's Resurrection. Sometimes, it seems that people place far more significance on Christmas than Easter, and that is of course a very important Christian festival too. But if Jesus had only been born, then lived out his life and died like any other human being, nothing would have changed. It was the fact that he was able to overcome death that makes the difference to us today.
I have had some interesting discussions recently with people who do not believe in God, or in an afterlife. I agree that I cannot empirically prove that there is anything after death, any more than those who believe there is nothing can prove that. But if Jesus' disciples did not encounter their risen Lord, what changed them from a group terrified that they would suffer the same fate as their Master into people prepared to risk their lives to tell others about him? We know, not just from the Bible but from other sources, that many of Jesus's first followers met dreadful deaths; surely it is one thing to risk that for something in which you passionately believe, but who would do so for something they knew was not true?
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