The cinema was quiet. Families were coming to terms with the death of the hero. But the story was not yet over. With a crash, the stone table, where the hero had been murdered, lay cracked in two. Never again could anyone be punished on it, for their own or anyone else’s betrayal. In the silence, the little voice at the back of the cinema whispered: “Dad, what does that mean?”
This is still the question we can keep answering as we show our children and young people their slain hero in the Easter story.
The shock of Easter
That was many years ago. Christians had found it amazing that C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe had been given the Hollywood treatment. We knew that C.S. Lewis wrote his Narnia Chronicles as an allegory of the Bible story. Our church had organised a screening at the local multiplex, but our excitement was not shared by all.
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