Is Easter Wrong?

This weekend many of our students will be spending time with their families around Easter Holiday. As all are aware East is a celebration where we remember Jesus’ death burial and resurrection, but why do we celebrate the way we do? Why do we hide eggs and then send children to find them? I honestly don’t know the answer but I was hoping someone reading this would know and could let me know. I think it is important to ask ourselves why we do the things we do because more often than not the reason we do a certain thing is that that’s what we have always done. I am not saying that we shouldn’t do those things, but I think it is important to understand why before we just do things out of habit or tradition.

That same thought process is arguably what started both the Reformation and the restoration of the Christian church. In the early 1500s, a man named Martin Luther got his own copy of the Bible and soon realized that the things he was hearing in the Catholic Church didn’t quite line up with what he read in his Bible. So he started asking why we do the things we do and it boiled down to tradition rather than truth. Alexander Campbell did the same and realize that he didn’t quite agree with the churches of his time and looked to scripture to find the truth.

I think it is time we do the same, we may come to the conclusion that everything we know and believe is accurate and true, or we may find that some of the things we put value in our traditions. One saying that I have heard recently from a very wise friend of mine is that it doesn’t matter what the Catholics teach, or the Baptists, or the Methodists, and it doesn’t matter what the Church of Christ teaches… all that matters is what the Bible teaches. Sometimes we get wrapped up in tradition and there isn’t anything inherently wrong with that but when tradition begins to blur the Biblical truth that is when we need to take a step back and do what is right.

Is it wrong to hide and hunt Easter Eggs, or put up a Christmas tree? No, just don’t let the tradition prevail over the truth.