It's All About The Bunny!

Driving down Teasley Lane in Denton, Texas last week, a church bulletin board invited me to Church to celebrate Easter. It read, "Come have breakfast with the Bunny." Maybe I'm old fashioned or maybe I respect Christ Jesus...I would never go to church on this celebration of the resurrection of Jesus to have breakfast with the Bunny. Will the religious nonsense ever stop? Being a Christian in our day and age apparently is little more than an old side-show wowing a few customers. I can remember when I was first born again to this living hope in Christ when I saw a church that was inviting people to come see a samurai chop a watermelon in half off the pastor's belly. A youth pastor invited kids to watch him jump from a railroad trestle into the Ohio River while swallowing a goldfish. I feel sick. The loss of respect for the reality of the person of God in Christ is appalling. While God is in the business of washing away sins through the death and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus, our modern churches are in the business of washing away any hope of true forgiveness by offering a Christ who is no more powerful than a cartoon Bunny on Easter morning. O that men and women who name the name of Christ would return to the greatest truth ever uttered among men that Jesus is both Lord and Christ reconciling the world to God. We must stop putting up with such senseless religious frivolity. One cannot entrap a man into Christianity by dangling a Bunny on a stick and then sneaking up behind him with the gospel. A person must know and understand with their mind before they can return and be healed of their appalling stroke of death. I speak to Christians. Those outside the church God will judge. Those inside, we confront one another. Remember the words of this hymn? Behold the Man upon a cross, My sin upon His shoulders. Ashamed I hear my mocking voice, Call out among the scoffers. It was my sin that held Him there Until it was accomplished His dying breath has brought me life I know that it is finished. I will not boast in anything No gifts, no power, no wisdom But I will boast in Jesus Christ His death and Resurrection. Should we not opt for glorifying the eternal Son of God? I call upon all who read to put away childish things and return to our eternal profession cast throughout the Christian centuries in the eternal Scriptures and reflected in substantial documents produced by godly followers of our Lord. Col 1:19-23 - For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. The Nicene Creed - I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.