AS the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, many Christian leaders and committed laity have stressed on the need to celebrate with dignity.
According to the Christian leaders, this call emanates from the observation that some people water down the importance of Jesus Christ’s resurrection.
Pastor Willie Chaponda, Founder of the Mustard Seed Church said the “word of God is never watered down”, hence it is not right to think that Easter, or rather, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not relevant today.
“The Bible says the word of God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow; the Bible [word of God] continues to be relevant and will be forever.
This is the reason I say the resurrection of Jesus is important to every Christian, and its significance cannot be underrated,” he said.
Chaponda stressed that it was important that “Christians should not relent in their belief in the power of the blood of Jesus Christ that saved human kind from sin”.
He said as we celebrate or commemorate the resurrection of Christ, Christians should reflect on whether their lives are in tandem with the suffering that Jesus Christ went through for the sake of their sins.
“We should walk the talk [as Christians], we have to reflect the life of Jesus and walk his ways and not the opposite,”said Chaponda, a renowned radio evangelist. The Catholic Church is one of the churches that actively participate in the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Reverend Father Henry Saindi, the General Secretary for the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) said it was important that Christians should celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
“The celebration of Easter is a call to renew our hope for a better Malawi by embracing Christ and his teachings. We are once again reminded that only Christ who conquered death can grant us his life, peace and prosperity,” he said.
He said the Easter event is the basis of the Christian faith and hope adding that Christianity would have lost its meaning if Christ had not risen from the dead.
“Easter is time for Christians to sacrifice their lives, time and what they have to be close to those crushed by life’s troubles, sharing with the needy, standing at the side of the sick, elderly and outcasts,” Reverend Saindi said.
He said that Easter should remind people of so many things. “Jesus, who was crucified, is risen! We are once again, reminded that in Jesus, love triumphed over hatred, mercy over sinfulness, goodness over evil, truth over falsehood, life over death,” Father Saindi said.
Pastor Watson Shawa said there is need to fully commit souls and minds to God Almighty.
“To me, the resurrection is still relevant because it is the climax of Christ’s work. A dead saviour would make no difference to a lost and sinful world.
His death identifies him with mankind; while his resurrection elevates mankind to a supernatural level and above all, His resurrection is key to the Christian faith,” Shawa said.
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