Sunday, April 17, 2022 - The Day That Changed Everything

We are calling our celebration of Easter, the day that changed everything.  Why is that?  Better yet is it really true that Easter changed everything.   I want to share a few facts with you about the life of Jesus to get us started…

 

There are 2.4 billion Christians in the world today—out of a world population of 7.9 billion people.   That is just slightly less that 1/3 of the worlds population that identify as a follower of Jesus.   

 

Jesus never wrote a book—-More books written about Jesus than any other topic in the world.  The Best selling book in all the world is the Bible with over 5 Billion copies sold—the runner up is Don Quixote with 500 million.   The Bible has sold 10 times more copies than the runner up.   That doesn’t count all the free versions of the Bible. 

 

Jesus never wrote any songs—yet more songs are written about him than all other subjects combined.

 

Jesus never built a building—yet more architecture is built to honor him than anything else in the world. 

 

Jesus never created any art—more art dedicated to Jesus than anything in history.

 

Jesus never traveled more than 200 miles from his hometown—yet his followers are in every place on the planet.  

 

What happened?   The resurrection.  We split our history by the resurrection.  Your Birthday is dated by the resurrection.   The resurrection is the day that changed everything!   That’s a really broad statement, what did it change for me, what can it change for you?