Is There Enough Room for All of Us?

There is a promise in the Easter season that speaks directly into the way we experience the world.

Jesus tells his followers not to let their hearts be overwhelmed. He speaks of God’s presence as something expansive, something with room enough to hold them. This is not a small space. It is not easily filled or closed off. It is a life that is wide enough to gather all people in.

That promise matters, because much of our world operates in the opposite way.

We are often formed by the assumption that there is only so much to go around. Only so much belonging. Only so much value. Only so much space. And when  we begin to believe that, it shapes how we live. We protect what we have. We draw lines. Sometimes we even decide, either quietly or openly, who fits and who does not.

But the resurrection of Jesus tells a different story.

In this Easter season, as we reflect on what it means to become a Resurrection People together, we are invited into a life that is not built on scarcity, but on abundance. Resurrection is not only about life after death. It is about God continually creating space for life where we assumed there was none.

The early followers of Jesus began to experience this in ways that stretched them. They found themselves becoming part of a community that did not look the way they expected. Boundaries they thought were fixed began to shift. Those who had been rejected or overlooked were now being named as chosen, as essential, as part of something holy being built together.

This is where the promise becomes challenging. 

If God’s life is truly spacious, then it is not ours to limit.

It means that the welcome of God extends further than our comfort. It means that the people we might hesitate to stand beside are already being drawn in by God. It means that belonging is not something we control, but something we are called to reflect.

We see this tension not only in the early church, but in our own time. There are still voices that speak of exclusion. There are still systems that rely on fear to maintain control. There are still ways we shrink the world, convincing ourselves that there is not enough room.

But the witness of faith points us back again and again to something larger.

Even in the face of fear and violence, there are those who trust that their lives are held in God. Even in moments of deep uncertainty, there are glimpses of a reality that is more open, more expansive, more alive than what we see on the surface.

To become a Resurrection People is to begin living out that reality.

It means trusting that we do not have to compete for a place.

It means making room in our lives and in our community.

It means allowing our assumptions about who belongs to be reshaped by God’s grace.

And it means courage.

Living this easy will ask something of us. It will ask us to loosen our grip on fear. It will ask us to listen more deeply. It will ask us to trust that God is already at work beyond the boundaries we have known.

The promise remains.

There is room in God’s life for all of us. Not because we have earned it, but because God's love is that wide, that generous, that alive.

So the invitation before us is not simply to believe this, but to live it.

To become, together, a people who trust that God is big enough. And to begin making room in such a way that others can see it too.

Kevin+