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So it’s Easter weekend, and all across social media I have been seeing Conservative Christians posting all manner of things grousing about possibly of not being allowed to attend Easter Sunday services at their local churches.

Because of this, I feel it has become necessary to apply some common sense to their angst.

In order to do this, I’ll pose a few questions, I’ll make some rather straight forward observations, and I’ll offer some sage advice given the current situation.

First…the questions…

Are you new to the whole Easter thing, or is this your first rodeo as a Christian?

Did someone come up to you over the past couple of months and tell you, “hey…you gotta hear this story. It’s only told one day out of the year and you don’t want to miss it?”

If not, then it’s a pretty fair bet that you’re somewhat, or pretty familiar with the whole Easter, Jesus storyline. You’ve most likely heard it once or twice, or many, many times during your life already. In fact, you could probably tell it, and retell it better than your pastor, your minister, or your priest.

I have to guess that since you’re complaining on social media about maybe not being allowed to go to church this Sunday, you already know that story by heart, but now you want to pack into an enclosed space, with a multitude of potential COVID-19 Christians to hear it all over again.

Guess what…it’s the same story you’ve heard before. Nothing’s changed. So what’s the big deal?

Are you just dying, or potentially dying to sit in a possible petri dish for the fashion show? Does God take attendance, caring more about you being in a certain building, on a certain day at a scheduled time than he cares about what might be in your heart?

Could it be that what’s really important, perhaps more important than hearing a story you’ve already committed to memory is getting all dressed up, and seeing what everybody else is wearing so that you can pass judgement on them over Easter dinner?

Of course, there are those Christians who attend the services twice a year…Christmas and Easter…but given the current situation, overblown though it may be, is it wise to take the chance? I mean, if you went last Christmas, or you go this coming Christmas you’re still batting 500 and that should be enough to get you into the hall of fame.

Okay…here come the observations…

For the past 2,000 years, we have celebrated Easter due to a whole series of arguably bad choices.

Jesus didn’t have to go to Jerusalem that particular weekend. That was a bad choice. He didn’t need to ride into town on a white donkey either, which only drew attention, that as things turned out he didn’t need. That too was a bad choice.

Then there was the whole going nuts thing with the money-changers…yelling, running amok, and flipping over tables raising a ruckus and engaging in general mayhem that got the attention of the local authorities focused on him.

That too was a bad choice.

After that, there was the whole Last Supper fiasco. Now think about this…how many people were at that particular gathering? Well, there was Jesus, 12 disciples, Mary and a portrait painter…that’s 15 by my count and given all the attention prior bad choices had brought to bear, 15 people at a gathering seems like a bad choice compared to 10 or less.

Let’s be honest here, Jesus probably could have gotten away with that supper gathering, as it was in an upper room rather than the main dining area of the Olive Garden, but after supper, he and the most of the rest of the group decided to go hang out in a whole different olive garden…after curfew…and THAT was a really bad choice.

After getting busted, Jesus had several opportunities to make some good choices that most likely would have cleared things up, and gotten him off the hook…but instead, he refused to answer simple questions, turned down several requests to properly identify himself, and let’s face it, a jar of wine from what used to be water would have cleared him of all charges.

Using 20/20 hindsight, that’s a whole series of bad choices, and not once did he use that old “do you know who my dad is” ploy which in his case, may have actually worked.

Look, when I was a kid, and made bad choices, I got grounded, but there was Jesus, who in the span of just one short week made so MANY bad choices he got CRUCIFIED.

Now then, did Jesus EVER go into a Christian church on a given day of the week at a scheduled time all gussied up and then talk about what other Christians were wearing later in the day? NO, and there’s a good reason for that. He never met an actual Christian in his life, and there were no such churches back then.

COVID-19 or no COVID-19, Jesus was different than you. He had a God-given immunity to all sorts of things that you don’t have. For instance, according to one story, he could stand in the middle of a sea and not drown while the rest of us would sink like an anvil. In another story, he could mingle with people in a community so rife with disease that bits and parts were falling off of people, and yet come out uninfected.

Given the simple fact that none of us really know who might be carrying the COVID-19 germs, do you really think it wise to take the chance this Sunday to attend the fashion show just to hear the same story you’ve heard most of your life? What if you’ve got COVID-19 right now and you don’t even know it yet…is it worth going to church this Sunday and passing it to someone else who may, or may not be able to recover from it?

Here’s the bottom line…Easter isn’t confined to a brick and mortar structure, it’s not about where you happen to be at a specific time, and in the grand scheme of things, it’s not really even about a group gathering to reinforce your particular beliefs.

Easter isn’t about your attendance. Easter is about your acceptance.

Finally…regarding the choice of whether or not to sit in a petri dish this Sunday possibly spreading, or catching the COVID-19…two words of advice…

Choose…wisely.

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