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Christ Is Risen — Run Away!

Why we don't always want to meet the resurrected Lord.

Mark Galli | posted 4/09/2009 10:18AM

In the last couple of years, we've seen a strange phenomenon: fear of good news.

When the surge in Iraq actually worked, not many antiwar activists exulted in the fact that violence had actually diminished. ...

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Tab	Posted: April 17, 2009 3:27 AM


I find it unfortunate that the majority of comments are from people who got offended by perceived racial ignorance, not about the amazing power of the revealing light of God.

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: April 14, 2009 11:20 AM

Of course, Christ is risen, according to His teaching, but not in the cheap Holiwood style of breaking open a sealed tomb early on Sunday morning. His self-revelation, as sustainable source of life right at his death on the cross, by own free will and authority, in a show of great glory and power is still on (Matt. 26:64)! You would not know what exactly hit you but your life will have changed for good as did mine more than 34 years ago! The big reason why we don't want to meet the real, risen LORD is because it is not theologically correct!

Dr. Tim Deibler

Posted: April 13, 2009 3:48 PM


"whom is called "the Soul" here" !!!!!!!!!???????? Who missed that this should be "who", not whom?

Twolfpb01

Posted: April 13, 2009 9:19 AM

I think this is a very interesting article; though it could be re-worded a little different; but still, interesting. The Apostle Paul wrote unto the Romans in ch. 13 verse 12 thru 14; The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. The King James Version. The Bible clearly speaks about fulfilling the fruit of the spirit and not the lust of the flesh ( Galatians 5:16-23 KJV). The closer you get to God, the more he reveals to you your flaws and what it takes for you to be perfect before him ( St. Matt 5:48). The problem is that many people are satisfied where they are in God. Plus the flesh hates to be challenged. So I encourage everyone to strive to be more like Jesus.

Shirley

Posted: April 12, 2009 7:01 PM


Dear, dear....it seems that people would still rather cling to the bad news! I'm with you, Mark. Great article!.

Wendy

Posted: April 12, 2009 11:53 AM

Any credibility to which you are probably entitled is totally LOST--on me and, I'm sure, others--when you marginalize those of us (and I'm a white woman with an African-American daughter) who acknowledge the pervasive racism of our country. Just the other day my elderly neighbor, quite the active Christian, expressed his belief that our president needs to be eliminated. Yes, as a nation, and individuals, we still struggle mightily--and very likely "incurably"--with racism. Join us here in reality. I will try later to read your article, but I sorrow that what is probably an important message is, for me, now soiled.

Alan M

Posted: April 11, 2009 1:45 PM

Mr Gali, it is unfortunate that you included those 17 words about racism in America. It was also unnecessary to introduce the resurrection of our Lord with examples clearly showing your political affiliations. Do some people see racism when there is none? Of course, some do. Has the election of Obama eliminated racist or proved that America is post racial? Of course not. The election of Obama only shows that more Americans are not racist or are willing to put their racial prejudice aside for what they see as “the greater good”. This does not say anything about regions of the country were racism still exist (and racism can also be a two way street). The election of Obama only serves to exacerbate racism in those areas. And even then, racism is more than just an issue with areas in the country. It manifests itself in various and complex ways in individuals . Your example is poorly chosen and does not show a grasp of the complexity of race relations in America.

Joan	Posted: April 11, 2009 12:13 PM

As far as Black activists are concerned, the caricatures of President Obama as "the drunk face Negro" in the cafe in NYC was "grotesque," not comic; similarly the "monkey" caricature of the President someone placed in the midst of a display of Obama-related books and magazines at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore; and that fact that the FBI reported in December that President-elect Obama had received more death threats than any other president-elect or president since records have been kept. Sure, American has made some progress by electing an African American president. Yet, that in no way equals or represents that racism has ended. Black people, activists who are Christian, still pray to Jesus Christ in full measure of current suffering, "How long, Oh Lord." There is the good news of Gospel that Christ is risen, and the equally somber news that there are still "principalities and powers." In what world does Mr. Gali live? Surely not that of most African Americans!

H. D. Schmidt

Posted: April 11, 2009 11:42 AM

In today's nation under God and claims to trust God with America now the mass grave of about 50 million of unborn babies while the butcher shops murder daily thousands more, it is, that I voted for the birth of Jesus, in as much as he started his work of redemption beginning in the womb of an earthly mother. If Christians in America are free from murdering unborn babies, let someone prove otherwise, please? Yes, some may even have voted for the risen Savior, when in reality if Jesus were to have come to today's America he might have been made part of that mass grave. Yes, as Chrisianity is on the decline in America. Yes, while the Christian Community in America practices procreation in reality more and more way below the animal kingdom, where with the aid of all kinds of contraceptions make the marital bed more like what goes on in some questionable places, called houses of prostitutions! Children are more and more becoming nothing better than a necessary, sort of a evil?

Patrick

Posted: April 11, 2009 7:01 AM

I thought this article also exposes your hypocrisy and refusal to embrace the light of reality about the glaring evidence of racism in America. Racism in America is systemic and structural, grow up! You would only appreciate it if you were colored person or of a minority group and had really suffered from its poisonous sting. Your introductory remarks are unfortunate and potrays a typical intellectual dishonesty. On the whole I think, greater part is well composed. Be honest next time! I pray the light of Easter would open your eyes and help you to embrace the truth. Stay blessed.

YSFJS

Posted: April 10, 2009 6:15 PM

Re: Swan and PJ There is, however, a logical hierarchy to be found. The resurrection validates Christ's possession of the gift He promised. The sinless life He lived makes the means of giving the gift possible. The ascension embodies the gift's continued representation before the Father's throne. The birth unites both the man who should, and the God who only could atone the two. But the gift itself of eternal life rests squarely on the justification wrought through the substitutionary sacrifice on the cross. Each is indispensable, but the several are subservient to the one.

Swan	Posted: April 10, 2009 5:19 PM


The poll gives me an impossible choice. Without Jesus' life and ministry, the resurrection wouldn't have much meaning. And without the resurrection, his life and ministry would be incomplete.

Tyler

Posted: April 10, 2009 10:02 AM

You make comments about anti-war activists, and black activists saying they don't want to acknowledge the good news in their respective situations. It comes off as though you are failing to acknowledge, that if you are anti-war you are against violence period so a decrease in violence is good but an end to violence is better so they will keep pushing. This isn't as offensive as trivializing the fact that there is a great deal of racism left in the United States, which I think was on display during election time. These were unnecessary to include in this article in my opinion and they deterred me from appreciating the rest of the article.

PJ	Posted: April 09, 2009 7:31 PM


And what is one without the other four?

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Posted: April 09, 2009 6:32 PM


Oh Padre Dave... the resurrection already happened... we celebrate every day... we don't visit the Upper Room

Jim	Posted: April 09, 2009 6:07 PM

This is more about the poll than the article. What a foolish question. It reflects the typical egotistic view of Western society that somehow my opinion affects reality. Does it really matter what I feel is most meaningful? And do my feelings somehow make that part more important? The work of Christ is a whole, not something we can pick and choose parts from. You forgot creation. You forgot His intercession on our behalf now. You forgot the coming judgment. You forgot His daily work on our behalf. You forgot sending His Spirit to be with us. All of those are elements of the one whole work of Christ on our behalf. Without one the rest fall. Too often I've heard the stupid phrases, "My God isn't that way" or "I don't picture God in that way" or "I'd prefer to think of God as ... (pick your favorite fluff)" You've joined ranks with those by even asking which of these is most meaningful.

Padre Dave

Posted: April 09, 2009 5:09 PM


Oh you evangelicals! Today is Holy Thursday and here you are jumping ahead to Easter! All in due time, dear fellow Christians, all in due time. As for today....we're in the Upper Room.

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