5 Tips to Make Your Easter Service Last Til Christmas
On my Tuesday column for EBONY.com, “The Spiritual Life,” I give 5 tips for making the most of your Easter church service. Check it out!
Many Christians—for various reasons—only make it to their local churches once or twice a year: Christmas and Easter. With Resurrection Sunday right around the corner, many are gearing up for their first church trip of the year. As you pack the pews this Sunday, here are five tips to get the most out of Easter service to hold you over until December 25.
1)Enjoy the praise and worship: Just because you don’t make it inside the church doors doesn’t mean you can’t have praise and worship service by yourself: in your home, in your car, or in your office with the door closed. During Easter service, remember the songs they sing and add them to your iPod to keep your praise and worship experience going throughout the year.
2) Take note of the scriptures read in service: Nothing can help you continuously stay in a mindset of reverence to God like taking some time to read the Bible. On Easter, churches across the nation will probably be focused on the New Testament Gospels that detail Jesus’s life, death and resurrection –Matthew, Mark, Luke or John—or even the book of Acts, which describes the 40 days Jesus spent on earth with his disciples after God resurrected Him from the dead. Whichever scriptures strike a chord with you on Sunday, write them down and start your Bible reading from there. With Bible apps for your phone and iPad, you can read a little bit of scripture as often as you think of it.
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