Easter Sunday truly remains the high point of the church year as well as for our Christian faith. As Paul rightly put it: “For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then it also follows that those who fell asleep in Christ perished. If our hope in Christ applies only to this life, we are the most pitiful people of all” (1 Corinthians 15:16-19).
No wonder, then, Christians in earlier times celebrated Easter with a sunrise service, an evening service as well as an Easter Monday service. Often, too, the various services shared the resurrection accounts as distinguished by the different gospel writers. Regardless of the emphasis or way of detailing Jesus’ resurrection by the various writers, the truth remains: “The Holy Spirit recorded this miraculous event for our comfort and confidence that our Jesus rose triumphantly in bodily form as the God-man, our Savior. Christ is risen…He is risen indeed!