CHRISTIAN TIMES MAGAZINE
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ISSUE 16 | MARCH 2018
THE WEEKEND THAT CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER
THE WEEKEND THAT CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER “THE BATTLE OF A LIFETIME – THE CELEBRATION THAT NEVER ENDS” By Steve Lacroix How many weekends during your lifetime has your life been drastically changed by an unexpected occurrence of natural events? Maybe you were located in part of the world that may have experienced a few sudden unexpected natural disasters such as a blizzard, hurricane, earthquake, or tsunami brought on by the wrath of “Mother Nature”. Or you might have been somewhere when all of a sudden bang the carpet gets pulled out from underneath you by the death of a spouse or someone you loved very dearly and your left reeling in pain with many forms of highly-energized emotions. Either way in all these different scenarios you likely experienced a deep intensive negative lifechanging event that impacted your life and altered the course of your destiny. On the other hand, most of us may have witnessed a few beautiful expected events that could possibly have occurred during the weekend that positively changed the course of our lives forever. The three life-changing events that I can think of pretty quickly that could possibly accomplish this would be the weekend you got married, or the weekend your child was born, or the weekend you became born-again in the house of God. In all of these different scenarios your life was drastically changed and impacted you one way or the other. Some of these events we orchestrated and others we had no control over how they manifested themselves into our lives. Either way these life-changing events helped shaped you into the person you are today. Our God does have a sense of humor and when you least expect your comfortable life to be changed, God steps in and interrupts your little world with these mind-boggling events that turn your world upside down and puts you on a different course. You had a nice comfy ride going on in your life then “life happened” and you find yourself tossed out of your comfort zone and going down a road you never expected to travel. You were perfectly happy and content with the way your life was going and then God did a “course-correction” and put you into a different lane on your highway to heaven.
By the time you are reading this article Christians, Jews, believers and non-believers from around the world will be preparing to celebrate Passover and Easter, one of the holiest times of the year that both occur during the last weekend of this month. As we take the time to honor and celebrate these two events in our own traditional and nontraditional ways lets pause to remember what took
“The Weekend That Changed The World Forever” place over 2000 years ago during
What started out as an “intimate Passover dinner with a few close friends “on a Thursday night turned
“three-day extravaganza” that literally “rocked our world” and changed the course of into a
destiny for everyone on planet Earth. This was a weekend unlike any other that we will never see again. The Weekend That Changed The World Forever was a
“Once In A Lifetime” pre-ordained
event, signed and sealed by God himself. This Once in a Lifetime event marked the world forever changing the history of mankind into His Story that began a new history for the world to read and embrace. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane a bit and see if we can imagine what it was like to be there during that amazing weekend. So here we are gathered together around a table in a quiet room wondering why Jesus called us all together for such a time as this. None of us knew what was going to take place but being with Jesus was something we all enjoyed. We knew we were here to celebrate the Passover with Jesus but something was different the way this night was going. On this night we would see a side of Jesus we never knew.
Jesus the Servant Leader: As this night progressed Jesus showed us the true meaning of being a Servant Leader. Jesus humbled himself by taking on the role of a servant and ministered to us in many different ways as the evening went on. Before the Passover meal began Jesus took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his