I wonder how you think of Easter? It was great today to go into a school to do an easter assembly, to be able to share the gospel with 200 kids and their teachers. However, I also had a first - I was asked to be the judge of the decorate an Easter egg competition.
The thing that struck me was that all of the kids had taken a lot of time over these eggtravaganza's (sorry a poor yoke!). But what struck me more was that quite a few were about the real Easter Story. There was one of the garden with the egg as the stone over the tomb, there was another with the egg on a donkey and part of the Easter story written out and so on.
It was great to look at them and then go on to explain what happened at the cross and to try and get them to think about Easter eggs differently. The foil is shiny like a crown and reminds us Jesus was God's kings, the chocolate that Jesus came to earth, the egg has to be broken just like Jesus body and the egg is empty just like the tomb.
We must take every opportunity to explain the gospel and what a great opportunity Easter brings.
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