Christians-Will Your Local Congregation Celebrate In-Person Easter This Year?  Or Will Your Worship Be Virtual Only?

No, our Church is going to be open for Easter Day.  However, of course we shall still have to wear masks apparently, so it won't be the usual celebration of singing that we have had in the past but like you, I am SO looking forward to it - being with the brethren whom I have missed so much

Nevertheless, we can worship God in the beauty of His holiness anywhere and everywhere all day and every day - that's the freedom we have as Christians.  It's just much nicer raising the roof in celebration with all of our brothers and sister-in-Christ.

Our worship (in my church) will be online and in home only.  The following week, areas that are not so hard hit by the pandemic will resume some sort of in-person worship service.

In person, people directed by ushers, sitting in every other row and 6 feet apart. The church won't hold all the members that way, so once it is filled to the allowed capacity, other folks will be directed to the attached parish school, where a large TV will be set up in each classroom, and the church service will be shown to a limited number of people in each classroom, sitting in properly spaced chairs.

Christians worship God everyday by His grace, not just Easter.  Our church has been meeting in person for quite some time, and will continue to do so by the grace of God.

The church I go to has had in person services since last summer.

The only issue is using the Church, rather than the Hall.  We usually use the Church building in the summer, and for major celebrations in the winter, but, it takes a full cord of wood to heat, and several days of round the clock attention.  We don't have the wood at the moment, and it is expensive up here.  If we use the Hall (as we normally do), we will have to restrict the numbers, as we are seated well spaced from each other, and the room is only so big.

Hebrews 10:25 

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is ; but exhorting one another : and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!

It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.

The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre

Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!

The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!

The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!

The Pope said last year that Easter should now have a set date to make it Christian!

Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

When you talk about Christians, remember that there is only one religion of Christianity, and that is the one that strives to observe and put into practice all of God's word on the Holy Bible! Therefore, all their doctrine is uniform to the word of God, and, in whatever church they are, in the World, they share their same thoughts, and acts, towards God.

So, next time, use the word Religious, OK!The word congregation is addressed to the so-called Witnesses Of The Tower, and then, what is their testimony based on? If they teach others that God does not answer? Eh!

Of course! He does NOT answer them because they are the antichrist, and they have NOT ever had a single answer from God in their supposedly organized prayers, because they are out of Christian doctrine?

As for the other religions, there are those who celebrate the so-called Easter, however, on our Cult, we do NOT celebrate Easter, because it was an ancient custom of the old people of Israle, to thank God, when He freed them from the slavery of King Pharaoh, in Egypt.

In fact, Jesus Christ took the place of the lamb that was sacrificed every year on the first day of the month, and Jesus Himself is the Savior for every sinner who repents to Him. Therefore, Jesus gathered with his disciples to celebrate the last Passover, and told his disciples to remember his sacrifice with the Holy Supper, that is, with bread and wine, as a sign of thanksgiving to God for his Salvation.

It will be online.

Edit:

Since I love Jehovah God for providing his Son so I may have life.

Since I love Jesus for freely giving his life, so I may live.

I do not HATE Christ's resurrection.

(1 Peter 1:3) “3 Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”

What I do hate is joining the Great God Jehovah to the false goddesses Ishtar and Eostre.

I am still wonder why a self proclaimed christian would name a holiday after a false goddess?

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A quick internet search we find this about Easter.

"Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols (like the egg and bunny) were and still are fertility and sex symbols (or did you actually think eggs and bunnies had anything to do with the resurrection?) After Constantine decided to Christianize the Empire, Easter was changed to represent Jesus. But at its roots, Easter (which is how you pronounce Ishtar) is all about celebrating fertility and sex.)"

I'm still trying to understand why a self proclaimed christian would want to celebrate a holy day named after the false goddess Ishtar which is pronounced as 'Est har'?

Or the German / English goddess Eostre"which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance."

Eostre was a "Spring-like fertility goddess" (as noted by the colored eggs and bunnies)"

Eástre, must in heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their own grandest anniversaries"

Understanding the origins of Easter;

True christians reject Easter and instead celebrate the only celebration Jesus actually commanded his followers to celebrate.

His death.  True Christians celebrate the death of our Lord for it provides the ransom.

His resurrection is the guarantee that his God and Father accepted Jesus' sacrifice.

(Acts 17:31) “31 Because he has set a day on which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has provided a guarantee [or assurance] to all men by resurrecting him from the dead.”

Because of my love for my brothers and sisters, I will again be staying home but will be with them on Zoom.

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