29 Mar What to Know about Easter at Mosaic
Hello everyone,
I’m so honored and excited to be able to remember Good Friday and celebrate Resurrection Sunday with you this weekend.
There are a few things you should know about this weekend!
Our overall theme for Easter is the Joy of Jesus, and we have a number of ways we want to reflect that:
DRAMA and DANCE
At our north campus, part of what you will experience will be an original, dramatic performance in the spirit of C.S. Lewis’ classic novel, The Screwtape Letters, which was also adapted into a Broadway play.
The Screwtape Letters imagines a fictional senior devil giving advice through a series of letters to a junior devil on how best to turn a human’s heart away from Christ. In this case, our vignette will be exploring how the Enemy might work to rob us of the joy promised in Jesus, culminating in a moving dance performance.
We feel this this presentation is potentially powerful for a couple of key reasons:
The Screwtape Letters reminds the world of the Ephesians 6 reality of the supernatural: we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood.
It also reminds us of the overcoming nature of the Christian faith and the power of Christ released through prayer and Christian community. C.S. Lewis wrote extensively about how the power of story, the arts, and supernaturally-tinged “fairy tales” can wake up sleeping souls.
While we don’t feel anything about the novel or our presentation is fundamentally scary in nature, it is definitely designed with middle school students and up in mind, given its inherent subject matter. My recommendation to parents with elementary-aged children is to bring them to our amazing mKids classrooms, where the “Best Sunday Ever” will be celebrated!
In a city like Austin, our hope is to meaningfully offer, from time to time, fresh and creative expressions of our faith that speak to Christian and non-Christian alike.
MUSIC
We can’t wait to worship and celebrate—from the beginning of our service— the Joy of Jesus. We also have a new, original song about the Joy of Jesus that will be sung at all campuses.
I hope you come ready to sing and worship!
SERVICE TIMES
Our north campus will have four services:
8:30 am, 10 am, 11:30 am, and *1 pm
Our south campus, for the first time, will have two services:
*9:30 am and 11 am
Mosaic Fort Worth will have one service:
11 am
*This service time is for Easter only.
GOOD FRIDAY FIRST
Of course, today is Good Friday, or as it’s called in John’s Gospel, “Preparation Day.”
My hope for you and for us is that we allow the day to prepare our hearts for whatever it is God wants to do in our lives and in our city.
Let the power of Good Friday prepare you for something great ahead, and to serve as a reminder that in this life, all our tears are really only temporary.
To remember this, our Good Friday services are:
6 pm and 7:30 pm at our north campus
6 pm at our south campus
FINALLY, A REQUEST
Would you please, right now, as you read this, take a moment and pray for Mosaic Church and the body of Christ across the city of Austin? Would you pray for lives to be changed and hope to be renewed as the Gospel of Jesus and the truth of the Resurrection takes center stage this weekend?
I can’t wait to see you, and wouldn’t want to do all this without you.
Morgan