Easter lessons for youth teach the joyful news of Resurrection. That’s the most important knowledge you can share. So let’s make sure all teens in our youth ministry programs are rock-solid about Easter truth. Use Easter lessons for youth to teach and reinforce the good news that Jesus is alive.
Maybe you’ve heard about young Sunday school students confusing their holidays. One said, “Easter is when Jesus died and went in a tomb for three days. … Then everybody gathers to see if Jesus comes out. If he sees his shadow, he has to go back inside. And we have six more weeks of winter!”
Some ideas about Easter are even stranger. A few blogs describe it as “the day Christians celebrate the idea that a dead Jewish preacher came back as a zombie.”
Or we could go with conspiracy theories. Maybe Jesus was a great guy and all, but when you’re dead, you’re, well, dead. Should we file away this Resurrection talk with belief in the Tooth Fairy and Santa?
What is the Resurrection to you and your students? Why does teaching Easter lessons for youth matter? Is it ridiculous to think an actual history-changing event occurred 2,000 years ago?
Easter Lessons for Youth: Some Perspective
From a logical and scientific angle, it seems impossible to return from the grave. But consider a historical angle. If overwhelming evidence exists that Jesus arose, then a logical and scientific explanation also must exist.
Most importantly, Jesus claims to be the only way to heaven. So what we decide about his existence must be our priority.
For intriguing, life-changing Easter lessons, teach the Resurrection to teens. Then you decide what most likely happened on that bright morning at Jesus’ gravesite.
First, let’s hear opening remarks from bestselling author Lee Strobel:
“If we were to call to the witness stand every witness who personally encountered the resurrected Jesus and we cross-examined them for only 15 minutes, and if we went around the clock without a break…we would be listening to first-hand testimony for more than 128 hours… That’s over 5 days’ worth of testimony… Who could possibly walk away unconvinced?”¹
Perhaps you remain unconvinced… So keep reading for factual evidence.
