Easter Sunday - What's the point?

As the centuries-old Easter greeting proclaims:

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!

But even Christians can skip over the Resurrection somewhat in our theology, as this article from Christianity Today, which I would recommend reading, discusses:

J. R. Daniel Kirk, ‘A Resurrection That Matters’
The subheading is “If we are completely saved from our sins through the Cross, what's the point of the empty tomb?”

I think Adrian Warnock’s new book Raised with Christ is also an attempt to answer this question.

The Christianity Today article is difficult to summarise briefly, since it's seeking to show how the Resurrection fits into the whole biblical narrative. This seems like a good summary statement: “the only way to take hold of God's promises for the future is to take hold of the resurrected Jesus in the present.”

Near the end of the article the author cites Flannery O'Connor, a writer who depicted the idiosyncrasies of the US South with an affectionate irony, and whose unsentimental Catholic faith perceived the grace of God breaking through in the midst of the weird and the grotesque (including the apparent weirdness of some Bible Belt religion):

In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the Misfit explains the world-shattering significance of Jesus' resurrection: “He thrown everything off balance. If he did what he said then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if he didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can.”