Jesus Movement - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

When that stone rolls away and they see that Jesus is already gone because he is already alive and out in the world again, doing the work. It is not just that their friend has been raised up. It is that the movement that Jesus began is not dead. The movement of creating a world where all people know that they belong and are beloved. They have a place creating a world where it's true. The movement towards that is not dead because Jesus is not dead. They belong. You belong. And I belong because of what Jesus has done and is doing. This world right now, we are in, my goodness, we are in interesting times. The division that we are seeing, the existential dread and the fear, the people in our own culture and in others who on a systemic level are being told they are less than that they do not matter. The Jesus movement started with a much smaller number of people than this. The movement that terrified an empire and threatened to change the world for love was a much smaller movement than this right here.