5 Reasons to Go to an Easter Service . . . Even if You're not a "Churchgoer"

Why Should I Go To Church On Easter?

I hate feeling out of place. If I ever showed up at a gym my "impostor syndrome" would make me sweat long before the exercise equipment ever did. We've all felt that sweaty anxiety of being out of place and it's terrible. 
So I sympathize with people who are interested in trying church but who are concerned that they'll feel that way the day they show up.

But Easter is one of those times when the intrigued and the desperate, the hopeful and the nostalgic have a pretense for overcoming their inhibitions about coming to church. It's the sort of Sunday when you expect the church to be full of unusual attendees.  So here are five good reasons for attending church on Easter, even if you have no intention of going again.

Five Good Reasons for Attending Church on Easter, Even If You Have No Intention of Coming Again:

1. God is real and he asks us to join others in his worship and makes promises about the blessings we'll enjoy when we do. Easter is as good a time as any to "taste and see that the Lord is good."
2. As a visitor you might worry about being conspicuous, but Easter is the sort of Sunday where a good church will have prepared for your arrival but where its attention will be focused on Jesus, not you.
3. Your motivation in visiting a church is less important than God's intention in drawing you. I can't speak for any other church, but if your motivation for visiting mine is to confirm your critical opinion of us, I will welcome you. If you want to show up just to please someone else, I will welcome you. Whatever your private reason for showing up, I will welcome you. 
4. My worst Sunday morning church experience was still a better use of my time than what I would have been doing otherwise.
5. Do a simple cost benefit analysis. There is the chance that the service will drag, that you will feel uncomfortably out of place, and that you will end up regretting having gone, in other words that you will have wasted a morning. But there is also the chance that you could end up spending an hour at the intersection of time and eternity having your life changed in the most wonderful way. Let the likelihood of a good outcome outweigh the possibility of a bad one.

And if you've never been to church before and you show up on Easter morning at Furnace Brook I will admire you for it, because this is hard. But it's oh so good. Jesus, the Lord of Life, will certainly reward every step you take in his direction.

​Hope to see you there!

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