The Service in PDF format is at: 04-10-2020 – Good Friday Service
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PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
GOOD FRIDAY
APRIL 10, 2020
AS WE GATHER
This Lent, we are using the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who Jesus was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize Him correctly. This evening we see Jesus through God’s eyes.
OPENING HYMN: “Were You There” LBW 92
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh…… Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Oh….. Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Oh…… Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
Oh……. Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
THE GOSPEL PASSION Mark 15:21–39
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. And it was the third hour when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!” So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him. And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
HOMILY: “It Takes Three Perspectives to Get the Truth”
P: Gracious God, we thank you that you have permitted us to see another Lenten season, during which we are privileged again to meditate on the cross of Christ. May this holy season bring us rich blessings. Cause the message of the slain Lamb of God to impress upon our hearts and minds the awfulness of our transgressions and lead us to Calvary for pardon and peace. Lead us to see that our sins caused his great agony in the garden; that our transgressions nailed him to the cross of Calvary; and that he was forsaken by his own that I might not be forsaken by you; that he died so that we might not die eternally. We pray all of these things through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, Amen.
P: Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
Save us from the time of trial
And deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.
P: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and give + you peace. Amen.