INVITATION Easter 2010
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church would like to invite you to our special EASTER SUNDAY SUNRISE SERVICE at 7 am, Our Saviours Lutheran Church Dayboro.
WHAT IS EASTER?
People who haven’t read the Bible or been exposed to its message could easily come to the conclusion that Easter has essentially to do with bunnies, eggs, and hot-cross buns!
They may also have been wrongly told by someone antagonistic to Christianity that even though Christians claim Easter as a Christian festival, they’ve simply taken over what was once a pagan festival and turned it into a Christian one.
This idea may originate in part from the fact that the name “Easter” is the old English adaptation of the pagan name “Eastre”, which was the name of a Teutonic goddess of spring or dawn.
Easter is the oldest Christian festival, and its message of Jesus’ death and resurrection is the foundation of Christian belief.
The Bible teaches that because Jesus broke the power of death by rising to life again, those who put their faith or trust in him will also win the victory over death.
The resurrected Christ assured his followers that at the end of this world’s existence he will return and then everybody who put their trust in him will be taken by him to heaven, where they will live forever with him. All believers in Jesus who have died will be raised to life again, to join the believers who are still alive at his return.
Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week, Sunday. Already in the first century AD, Christians called Sunday “the Lord’s Day”, and each Sunday was celebrated as a “little Easter”.
In the early centuries of the Christian church, the actual festival of Easter lasted until the following Sunday, and worship services were held on each of the eight days.
Those baptised at Easter were required to attend the services. T hey wore white baptismal robes, and consequently the first Sunday after Easter was known as “White Sunday”.
Nowadays, many Christian churches observe an Easter season of fifty days, leading up to the festival of Pentecost.
EASTER IS A NEW BEGINNING AND A NEW BEGINNING FOR OUR SAVIOURS LUTHERAN CHURCH DAYBORO.
We now Worship every Wednesday 7pm – 8pm as from the 10th March – Cruice Street Dayboro. Please come and join us. All welcome.
They may also have been wrongly told by someone antagonistic to Christianity that even though Christians claim Easter as a Christian festival, they’ve simply taken over what was once a pagan festival and turned it into a Christian one.
This idea may originate in part from the fact that the name “Easter” is the old English adaptation of the pagan name “Eastre”, which was the name of a Teutonic goddess of spring or dawn.
Easter is the oldest Christian festival, and its message of Jesus’ death and resurrection is the foundation of Christian belief.
The Bible teaches that because Jesus broke the power of death by rising to life again, those who put their faith or trust in him will also win the victory over death.
The resurrected Christ assured his followers that at the end of this world’s existence he will return and then everybody who put their trust in him will be taken by him to heaven, where they will live forever with him. All believers in Jesus who have died will be raised to life again, to join the believers who are still alive at his return.
Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week, Sunday. Already in the first century AD, Christians called Sunday “the Lord’s Day”, and each Sunday was celebrated as a “little Easter”.
In the early centuries of the Christian church, the actual festival of Easter lasted until the following Sunday, and worship services were held on each of the eight days.
Those baptised at Easter were required to attend the services. T hey wore white baptismal robes, and consequently the first Sunday after Easter was known as “White Sunday”.
Nowadays, many Christian churches observe an Easter season of fifty days, leading up to the festival of Pentecost.
EASTER IS A NEW BEGINNING AND A NEW BEGINNING FOR OUR SAVIOURS LUTHERAN CHURCH DAYBORO.
We now Worship every Wednesday 7pm – 8pm as from the 10th March – Cruice Street Dayboro. Please come and join us. All welcome.
