Paul’s revolutionary message was a simple and, in the day, virtually unnoticed event, registering as barely a blip on the screen of epoch-making events: the death and resurrection of Jesus by which our own victory over death has been secured!

Behold! I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. …

Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

I Corinthians 15

It was for this message - and the historic reality to which it bore witness - that Paul was accused of “turning the world upside down.” A message for which he was executed.

As those who, in Jesus, have been placed upright in an upside down world by the surprising reversal of death, let us come together to worship! Let us come together for that revolutionary and dangerously simple task of worship and so bear witness before a wondering and wandering world to the reality of the resurrection that continues to ripple through the world in the Body of the living Jesus.

Order of Worship for 05.31.09