Would the Real Easter Please Stand Up

Easter isn’t cute, it’s costly.

It’s not chocolate bunnies or long weekends. It’s a public declaration: The Son of God died for us. He bore the full weight of sin, shame, wrath, and death – what we deserved – and nailed it to the cross. This wasn't sentimental spirituality; it was violent mercy and justice, satisfied in blood. Love at its rawest: unfiltered, undeserved, unstoppable.

Christ’s death and resurrection is when holiness and humanity collided… sin was judged, and grace was unleashed. It split history in two, but we’ve buried the cross under fanfare, chocolate, and comfort. We’ve domesticated the truth of Easter, turning a cosmic confrontation into cozy tradition.

But Easter was never meant to be comfortable. It was meant to confront sin and reveal the Saviour.

"But God demonstrates His love toward us, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

Love bled for you and desperately desires a response. Salvation isn’t an outdated relic; it’s current, culturally relevant, unbound by time and eternally critical.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:8

A gift. Not earned, not deserved, but given. Not a pat on the back for the moral, but mercy for the messed-up. God didn’t wait for us to be lovable; He loved us while we were rebels.

Easter is Salvation, Sonship, and Eternal Life purchased not with silver or gold, but with the blood of God Himself. Pop culture doesn’t want the real Easter… it’s too offensive, too exclusive, and too intense for watered-down faith and progressive tolerance. But grace was never designed to comfort the proud. It’s always been a holy offense to human pride.

Would the real Easter please stand up? Let’s stop sanitizing Easter. Let’s not hide the cross behind sentiment. Let it shake us. Let it offend us. Let it save us.

Peter and Michelle Maher 

The Range Church