WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES EASTER MAKE ?

What Difference Does Easter Make?

I come to you today as an apologist for Easter. I am a great fan of holidays in general. And I come to you to defend the holiday we call Easter. I think it deserves to be held in higher esteem.In our society, there are two great religious holidays each year—Christmas and Easter. For most of us, Christmas is the bigger and greater season of the year. It’s the time when we gather with family and friends. We sing, we celebrate, we laugh, and we exchange presents. Christmas is the climax of the whole year. And Easter? For most people it’s just another long weekend, a break in the dreary stretch between Christmas and summer vacation. Even some Christians view Easter as a second-rate holiday.

It is the great miracle of Easter that gives Christmas its true meaning!

Somehow we’ve gotten our thinking badly mixed up. If Easter had not happened, Christmas would have no meaning. If Easter had not happened, Christmas would be nothing more than a sweet-sounding fable. If Easter is not true, then Christmas is only the story of an obscure baby born in an out-of-the-way town in a forgotten land 2000 years ago. It is the great miracle of Easter that gives Christmas its true meaning.