Andrew Beasley
Many people have struggled with having faith in what they have read in Scripture. Some may struggle when they find the Bible teaches principles that are contrary to what they had been led to understand it did. Others struggle because they are unable to witness the events of the Bible with their own eyes. We have all encountered faith challenged people. Maybe at some point in our own lives we have been challenged in our faith ourselves.
It is a blessing that God does not call us to believe without evidence (Hebrews 11:1). As the world celebrates the Easter holiday today, and many have the resurrection of Christ on their minds, it is important to acknowledge that we are not simply expected to believe Christ is risen without evidence. After His resurrection, Jesus appears to several witnesses (even a group of 500 at one point). How do we know this? Through the eyewitness testimony recorded in the Gospel accounts of His life.
Paul makes the case for the consequences if Christ is not risen (1 Cor. 15:14-19) but concludes by saying “but, in fact, Christ has been raised” (1 Cor. 15:20). And so we celebrate not just this Easter Sunday but every week that our Lord is risen, and our faith is strengthened knowing that we do not believe this blindly but that evidence supports this truth.
- Andrew Beasley serves as a minister with the Northwest Church of Christ in Greensboro, NC. He may be contacted through the congregation's website: https://nwchurchofchrist.com/about/
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