“Come and Go with Me” Easter Sunday Worship Service – April 5, 2026

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Kyle Belmont, Charlyn Bethell, Morris Sullivan, and Guy Urban.

We will celebrate the arrival of Spring and renew our commitments to a faith rooted in Jesus’ teachings about love of neighbor, stranger, creation, and ourselves. Spring flowers will bedeck our sanctuary, our choir’s voices will resound, and the joy of community will awaken us all! Take a breath, slow down, and give yourself the gift of church this Sunday.

Reading: “Being the Resurrection,” by Victoria Weinstein

The stone has got to be rolled back from the tomb again and again every year.
Roll up your sleeves.

He is not coming back, you know.
He is not coming back unless it is we who rise for him
We who lay healing hands on the reviled and rejected like he did
on his behalf —
We who rage for righteousness in his insistent voice…

He will not be back to join us at the table
To share God’s extravagant banquet
God’s love feast, all are invited, come as you are
And so it is you and I who must feast for him
Must say the grace and break the bread and pass it to the left
and dish up the broiled fish (or pour the wine) and pass it to the right.
And treat each one so tenderly
as though just this morning she or he made the personal effort
to make it back from heaven, or from hell
but certainly from death
to be by our side.

Because if by some miracle (and why not a miracle?)
He did come back
Wouldn’t he want to see us like this?
Wouldn’t it be a miracle to live for just one day
So that if he did, by some amazing feat
come riding into town
He could take a look around and say
“This is what I meant!”

And we could say
it took us a long time…
but we finally figured it out.

Oh, let us live to make it so.

You are the resurrection and the life.