The message [of Easter] is that new creation has begun, and you are called to belong to it and to make it happen in the world - whether by campaigning for making poverty history, for peace and justice in the Middle East, for a new start for refugees and asylum-seekers, or for a fresh vision for where we should be going...in our schools and hospitals and cities and villages. Take the scriptures in one hand and the power of God in the other, take a deep breath of the air of new creation which blows through the world on Easter Day, and find what you can do to make new creation happen. The powers of death and hell will be cross with you for doing so, and you'll face battles on the way. Go back again and again to the fact of Easter...God's new creation will win the day, and you must be a part of it. That is why the Easter message is a message of love, the love which believes the resurrection itself, the love which reaches up to God in gratitude and out to the world in generosity.
-N.T. Wright
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