Mill Plain UMC Mill Plain UMC. Good Friday, April 15,2022
Songs
What Wonderous Love #292
Old Rugged Cross #504
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded #286
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Friday April 15, 2022
Good Friday
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.
People: That we might die to sin and live to righteousness.
Opening Prayer
Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ was lifted high upon the cross so that he might draw the whole world to himself.
Grant that we, who glory in this death for our salvation, may also glory in his call to take up our cross and follow him.
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Song What Wondrous Love Is This #292
Reading from the Hebrew Bible
Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Song: The Old Rugged Cross #504, stanzas 1-3
John 19:16b-25
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them.
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So, they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says, “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
The Reproaches: Christ’s Lament Against His Faithless Church
After each reproach is read a nail is pounded into the cross.
Then response is sung,
What Wondrous Love Is this, O my soul, O my soul,
What wondrous love is this, O my soul?
Silent Meditation
People may come forward to kneel or stand at the cross, touch it, nail to it a paper with their sins written on it.
Worshipers at home may meditate on the cross shown on the screen, or on a cross they have placed near their computers at home.
Song: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded #286
Benediction
May Jesus Christ, who for our sake became obedient unto death, even death on a cross, keep you and strengthen you, now and forever. Amen.