That first Easter, nobody actually saw Jesus rise from the dead. They saw Him after He had risen. They didn't appear to Him; He appeared to them. Us. In the Bible, the "proof" of the resurrection is not the absence of Jesus' body from the tomb; it's the presence of Jesus to His followers. The gospel message of the resurrection is not first, "Though we die, we shall one day return to life," it is, "Though we were dead, Jesus returned to us."
If it was difficult to believe that Jesus was
raised from the dead, it must have been almost impossible to believe that He
was raised and returned to us. The result of Easter, the product
of the Resurrection of Christ is the church -- a community of people with
nothing more to convene us than that the risen Christ came back to us.
That's our only claim, our only hope. He came back to
In life, in death, in any life beyond death, this is our great hope and our great commission. Hallelujah! Go! Tell! The risen Christ came back to [your town], uh I mean Galilee.
-- Adapted from a sermon entitled “He Came Back… To Us!” by William Willimon
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