EASTER MESSAGE
My dear People of God,
Living the Resurrected life
Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Christ who overcame death through the endurance of the cross, that we may henceforth live a new life to the glory of God Almighty.
Having been enabled by God to meditate on the passion of our Lord during the holy season of lent, it is hoped that the lessons of love, perseverance, humility, and absolute trust and dependence upon God have been learnt.
As we celebrate Easter, we write to encourage you to meditate on the resurrection message. There is a need to appropriate and apply its lessons to ourselves; else, Easter is devoid of its true meaning.
By the death of Christ, we learn to let go of all our claims to power and glory, humbly submitting to the will of God. In his burial, we are to put far away from us all the sins and weights which so easily beset us, such that in the resurrection, we will be raised to new life of peace, joy and the love of Christ.
Beyond the resurrection, we must continue to pray for our nation that God will raise us up from the abyss of religious commercialisation and intolerance, economic and financial manipulations, all fraudulent practices as well as wicked political calculations and permutations.
May God raise us all up to sit with him in the heavenly realms. Amen.
The Grace of God be with you.
Signed
Most Revd Peter J. Akinola DD, CON.
Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion);
National President Christian Association of Nigeria
My dear People of God,
Living the Resurrected life
Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Christ who overcame death through the endurance of the cross, that we may henceforth live a new life to the glory of God Almighty.
Having been enabled by God to meditate on the passion of our Lord during the holy season of lent, it is hoped that the lessons of love, perseverance, humility, and absolute trust and dependence upon God have been learnt.
As we celebrate Easter, we write to encourage you to meditate on the resurrection message. There is a need to appropriate and apply its lessons to ourselves; else, Easter is devoid of its true meaning.
By the death of Christ, we learn to let go of all our claims to power and glory, humbly submitting to the will of God. In his burial, we are to put far away from us all the sins and weights which so easily beset us, such that in the resurrection, we will be raised to new life of peace, joy and the love of Christ.
Beyond the resurrection, we must continue to pray for our nation that God will raise us up from the abyss of religious commercialisation and intolerance, economic and financial manipulations, all fraudulent practices as well as wicked political calculations and permutations.
May God raise us all up to sit with him in the heavenly realms. Amen.
The Grace of God be with you.
Signed
Most Revd Peter J. Akinola DD, CON.
Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion);
National President Christian Association of Nigeria
