“If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen, nothing else matters.”
So spoke Jaroslav Pelikan, Professor of history at Yale University, author of some 50 books on the history of the world and the church.
It’s true.
If He has not risen, then what does anything else the church talks about really matter?
If He has not risen, then all the church can do is talk about how to stay out of trouble in this life or how to have fun and mitigate the consequences. Our faith is a well meaning wish – but death still wins in the end.
And if He is risen, then what does anything else matter? We have life, eternal life, deathless life, hope that transcends the ups and downs of an 80 year life down here. He has conquered our greatest foe and secured our destiny.