The song says “Celebrate Christ”. Because Christ values the church as his body, because he died for the church, because he claims the church and it wears his name, we can also “celebrate church.”
The church for which Christ died is described in Acts 2 where we read of its beginning as the first to become New Testament Christians responded to that first gospel sermon preached by Peter on Pentecost. In the closing verses of Acts 2, we read of a church that was committed, constant, compassionate, community, credible, and creative.
In a world where many criticize the church and have no use for the church, there is something right with the church. Not only do we read about it in Acts 2, we see it lived out in countless congregations of God’s people around the world.
One of those congregations is the Holmes Road church of Christ in Lansing, Michigan, where we are spending the weekend “celebrating Christ” as the source of strength and unity as we “celebrate church.”
Here is a church that has the DNA of initiative, intentionality about unity, integrity, influence, and a sure identity in Christ. May God be praised for the wisdom of his plan to put his people together in the church.