The church has set these fifty days as the most important in the church year. Yet, the church today has largely forgotten the season. It is high time that we practice resurrection.
We believe that intentional spiritual and life giving practices will revitalize churches and individuals in ways that will last through the year. What we are seeking is to learn to live in a new way that Jesus called ‘abundant life’.
Most Christians know about the season of Lent. It is a forty day period of special devotions leading up to Easter. Lent was inspired by the forty days that Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness. During Lent Christians commit to spiritual practices of self-denial by giving things up. These practices are meant to reduce the ego and increase our dependance on God. But what happens when Lent is over?
What if we feasted during Easter as hard as we fasted during Lent? What if we continued to devote ourselves to spiritual practices but this time, devote ourselves to ways that build up the body of Christ and our local community? Instead of focusing on just the lenten theme of death to our egos, what if we practiced the kind of ways that lead us to abundant life? This is when we begin the Great Fifty Days of Celebration!
It is no coincidence that Easter is ten days longer than Lent, after all we are an Easter people. The Great Fifty Days is meant to be a celebration of the life that Christs brings. It is a season of deliberate spiritual growth. What we have discovered is that just like Lent practices to help us get to the cross, Christians have other simple practices that take us from the empty tomb back out into the world as transformed people ready to transform the world.
We invite you and your faith community to join us in practicing resurrection.
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