Rob Parker's Blog

What I find so interesting about the resurrection account is the person who Jesus first appeared to.  For many they would think the persons that would be entitled to see the risen Lord would be  the High Priest or John the disciple.  Maybe it should of been Mary the mother of Jesus, but it was not.  Can you believe the first person Jesus appeared to was Mary Magadelene, a woman who had lived in adultery,  She was a woman who should have been stoned by the religious leaders and condemned.  To Jesus she was the very reason for his life, death and resurrection.

We have made Christianity unapproachable, something for the perfect.  The problem is no one is perfect but all of us our in a deep need for a savior.  I find it extremely liberating that Christ had made the point to come for the broken and the “least of these.”  He not only came to give them life but to be in relationship with them and to allow them to be identified with himself.  Why? Because it is in a persons brokenness they are able to recognize their deep need for salvation.