Easter Doesn't Need Your Best Performance | What the Room Cannot See E5

The Sunday that comes after weeks of build-up. The big-attendance Sunday. The visitor Sunday. The Easter Sunday. Most worship leaders have one of these on the calendar somewhere, and most carry a particular kind of weight in the week leading up to it: you have to make it good.

Anchored in John 19:30. From the cross, Jesus said three words: "It is finished." Not almost finished. Not finished except for what you can add to it on Easter morning. Not substantially finished, pending the worship set on Sunday.

If the work of Easter is already finished, what exactly are you adding on Sunday morning that will improve it?

Excellence is not the same as performance. Excellence is what you do BECAUSE the work is finished. Performance is what you do TO MAKE SURE the work is finished. The first one rests in Jesus. The second one carries Jesus. He does not need to be carried. He carries.

Your job on Easter is not to add to the finished work. Your job is to host a room that is going to encounter it.

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