Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Life

Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Living
1 Corinthians 15.29-34

We stood in the great Coliseum in Rome, and stared at the chambers and passages underneath where the floor would have been.

‘This is where they kept the wild animals,’ our guide said. ‘They used ropes and pulleys to winch up the cages, and then the animals would come out of a trapdoor straight into the arena.’ We looked around and imagined the crowd, half the city packed into the vast stadium for a holiday spectacle full of excitement, blood and death. We imagined the gladiators, trained up for this moment, sharing their last meal together the previous night, knowing that by the following day many if not all of them would be dead...

Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright