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What's So Important About Easter? Chronicle What’s so important about Easter? A series of events almost 2,000 years egg – or he would be the devil of hell. changed the course of human history. You must take your choice. Either this A young man from an obscure province was, and is, the Son of God, or else in the Roman empire ran up against a madman or something worse. You the most powerful government of can shut Him up for a fool or you can his day. He was put on trial, found fall at His feet and call Him Lord and guilty of crimes he had not committed, God. But let us not come with any and put to death in the most cruel patronizing nonsense about His being circumstances. Extraordinarily, three a great human teacher. He has not left days later he did something considered that open to us.” impossible, in his day and in ours. Jesus claimed to be the Saviour of the Although he had died, he came back world. In John 12:47, he is recorded from the grave and was seen by a few as saying: “I didn’t come to judge the followers at first, and then by crowds of world. I came to save it.” He claimed people. to be the “bread of life.” He claimed What’s so important about Easter? It to be the “light of the world.” He said proved Jesus was who he claimed to if you believe in him you would have be – God in the flesh, come to earth to eternal life. rescue us. On Palm Sunday we celebrate Jesus’ “Easter proved Jesus was who he triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It was claimed to be – God in the flesh,” a welcome fit for a king. Thousands came out to see him, waving palm crosses and shouting, “Hosannah!” Jesus allowed himself to be put on trial They spread their cloaks on the ground so there would be no doubt about who as a sign of honour. Yet within a week he was. He knew he would be proven Jesus was put on trial (actually 6 trials) guilty and put on the cross – but he and the same crowds called for his allowed it to happen. It was all part of execution. the plan. On the night before he died Jesus was If you saw Mel Gibson’s The Passion brought before Annas, Caiaphas (high of Christ or read articles about how priest), the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court crucifixion works, you will have some of Israel), Pilate (Roman governor of idea about how excruciating a death Jerusalem), Herod (governor of Galilee), Jesus suffered. It was so horrific that and then back to Pilate. Witnesses the Romans passed a law that said no brought trumped up charges, but at Roman citizen could be put to death the end of all the trials and questions that way. and witnesses they found he had done Why did he do it? Why did he suffer nothing wrong. Finally they convicted death on the cross? He died so that we him on one count: that he claimed to be might have life. The first Bible verse I the Son of God. memorised was John 3:16, “God loved In a sense Jesus Christ is still on trial to the world so much that he gave his one Mere Christianity, CS Lewis makes this and only son, Jesus, so that everyone statement. “A man who was merely a who trusted in him might have the gift man and said the sort of things Jesus of eternal life.” said (about being the Son of God) … After Jesus died, they took his body would either be a lunatic – on the level down and put him in the tomb, and Cowley Team Ministry with a man who says he is a poached a giant millstone was set in front of March 2010 continued on page 2. 1 Editors’ Letter As you receive your March Foundation and pays 70% higher produce their milk. Andrew Chronicle we shall still be into Smith M.P has put our case to Fairtrade Fortnight. The Big prices than the minimum price the government after we wrote Brew at St James made 74.70 so required by Fairtrade. The to him but nothing appears to far, with a bit more expected to company is also committed to have changed. There, that’s that. come in. If you would like to do the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETA) Now let’s talk about the weather something more for Fairtrade implementing direct support – Uggh! It seems to us that this Fortnight, they’re asking people projects for their growers. The dreary winter has dragged on too to support The Big Swap, swap- makers of P.G Tips say that by long. ping at least one item for its 2010 all the tea grown for their Fairtrade equivalent – a bunch brand will be from sustainable Do you remember as a small of bananas, a pair of new cotton sources, and are proud of the fact child having a selection of pretty socks, or a cup of tea or cof- that the scale and benefits of the coloured plasticine to play with? fee. “Use your wallet to make Rainforest Alliance for farmers As long as the colours were kept a stand” is their slogan. You can and their families is a large part separate they were lovely to use. register your swap online at of their policy. They also bear But gradually they got all mixed www.fairtrade.org.uk/thebigswap/ allegiance to fair prices. Twinings up and you finished with a lump register_your_swap_here.aspx was a founding member of ETA of greyish modelling clay, and no which is not only committed to matter how hard you tried, eve- We have had responses from a the growers but tea packers as rything you made looked dull. number of tea companies who well. The company quotes the support Fairtrade. They are quite standards it adheres to in the The lovely bright colours of interesting. Typhoo trades with ETA. So you see, tea growers and Christmas, the sparkling snow two estates fully committed to coffee growers too are mainly and the frosty blue skies have the movement including one in getting a fair deal. all finished up in a February that Malawi which has introduced looked like a lump of grey plas- good working terms, conditions, What then are we to do about ticine. Roll on March with its wages and even housing and clean our British farmers? I am still spring flowers and baby birds. water for their workers. uncomfortable at being able to buy two litres of milk in Iceland God Bless. Yorkshire Tea says it respects the for £1 when dairy farmers are Rosanne and Carol ethical trade of The Fairtrade receiving less than it costs to Rector’s Letter continued from page 1. the cave because the religious leaders worried that you’re really God?” But Jesus proved he was God, Jesus’ body might be stolen. They didn’t want him who would suffer for us, and die on the cross, and coming out. But of course, he did. three days later he was alive. That was far better It’s important to remember that Easter is not a proof of the legitimacy of his claims. memorial to a nice guy, or a good religious teacher What’s your verdict? Just as Pilate asked, “What who lived 2,000 years ago. It’s a celebration of the shall I do then with Jesus who is called the Christ?” fact that he is alive today. I’m living proof – and so you also must decide who he was. Is he God? Or are the approximately 1 billion Christians who will is he a lunatic or a liar? If he is who he says he is, celebrate Easter this year. how then will you live? “... by being raised from the dead he was proved to If you want to think more about the life, trial, and be the mighty Son of God, with the holy nature of death of Jesus, come to one of the services of Holy God himself.” (Romans 1:4, LB) Week. I especially recommend Palm Sunday (28 When Jesus was hanging on the cross, sceptics and March), Maundy Thursday (1 April), Good Friday (2 critics mocked him. “If you’re the Son of God, why April) and of course Easter Day (4 April). don’t you come down from that cross and show that Howard 2 Snowdrop Weekends February is always such a dreary month and church. I met two couples, each of whom married February 2010 was no exception – all that snow, at St James 56 years ago and another couple, with deep frosts at night and cold, sleety days. So the their children, who had tied the knot eleven years task of organising our snowdrop days at St James ago. The affection for St James’ church was written seemed sometimes quite a chore. Drawing up all over their faces. One gentleman, recently welcomers’ rotas, encouraging kind people to make widowed, remembered coming to St James as a cakes, and setting up a tea shop in church, to say youngster; another chap told me a wonderful story nothing of gazing anxiously at the aconites and about Canon Whye; and a young man who lives in snowdrops in case they don’t make a proper show Beauchamp Lane said that since he has arrived in the for the visitors, sometimes seemed a bit too much. area he has always found the church locked.
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