Christians come into worship to inhabit time. When we forsake worship, we lose track of time; we live in a foreign time zone. But when we come into worship, we come into heavenly time; a time when the Church communes with the king of time, Jesus Christ. Worship allows everyone to be in the same rhythm, marching with the beat of the liturgy.
The pre-resurrection church was in the dark. They couldn’t read the time accurately, and everyone’s clocks were set according to their own schemes. The false teachers drew us away from real-time. They perverted the rules of time. They made up time and forsook the time of the Torah and the prophets.
But the resurrection of Jesus gave us uncorrupted time; without perversion. The Church walked in accordance with the time of heaven.
She has since been feasting since AD 33 with gusto! And as long as she communes with Jesus and continues in this long-time-tested tradition of gathering and lifting their voices, she won’t lose track of time.
The Church is a feast-factory; she produces clocks for a world gone mad; a world lost in sadness that arranges life according to her own time-zone. The world has no sense of time, so she makes her own time. But God has ordained one time, one day, to come as one.
While the world fabricates parties to make sense of time, the church parties on since that glorious day when time saw a stone rolled away and a resurrected Lord triumph over the gates of hell.
Time is on our side. And therefore, let us join the feast! Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again!
