High school seniors Bruce Marshall, Jack Jordan, Dahlia Townley-Bakewell, and Sam Shiberou offer today’s sermon.
Christ is risen, my friends! Christ is risen! The only work that’s left for us to do is walk away from the stories of the empire, and commit together to being the people of Abel’s God, the community of Jesus, and to giving our fears over to his resurrection to be raised as joy.
We imagine the edge or the end guarded by dragons, but those are angels telling us to look around and see that this is not the end, and so this is not where we have to stay. In some ways, this invitation is just as fearsome as a mythical sea monster, it requires some boldness and at least a little bit of faith to say yes when the world says no.
Good Friday is a day of revolution. It is a revolution in which Jesus dies at the hands of oppression, then rises to new life to bring heaven to earth, not only in an afterlife but in the here and now. And Jesus invites us to join him as full, active participants in his saving work of bringing peace, justice, and hope.