Good Friday 2014

Muswellbrook GOOD FRIDAY WORSHIP 8AM

 mp3 7.55am “I Grieve” Peter Gabriel 4min 53 with lyrics onscreen

Call to Worship [can't remember where I stole the original from Christine Sine?]

From the busy-ness of our lives

We have come here on a day that is different.

We live in a part of the world that mostly offers hope and possibilities,

We have come to share a story of betrayal and violence

Young and old we wonder what this story holds for us today…

Come and hear the story, come and share the tragedy,

Come and enter into the drama…

And from Psalm 22 adapted from the late Moira Laidlaw

Our praises for God should be energized by how we connect with our world.

When all people turn to God and worship God,

The poor will eat and be satisfied, we will have justice and peace

Let’s thank God through lives offering love in actions and words

And build a community around God’s story…

Extinguish a candle

Prayer [adapted Christine Sine]

Christ Jesus you hung upon a cross and died for us

so that we might live for you.

Your body was broken and your blood shed

so that we might be healed and made whole.

You were faithful unto death

so that we might be faithful unto life.

Your last command was that we might love one another:

one people together from every tribe and nation,

a new creation united through your sacrifice,

redeemed by your blood,

healed by your love,

united by your covenant of peace.

In your death may we find life.

Amen

Communal Song

VIDEO CLIP ‘Holy-Moly Good Friday’ 4min 51

READING Part # 1   John 18: 1-27

STORYBOX I wonder….. I broke most of the 'Godly Play' rules and made up a story with drawings, symbols, leather strings, cross, etc

Communal Song

READING Part #2   John 18: 29-40 19: 1-8

Brief REFLECTION A had two requests for a copy which was a conversation worth engaging in

Communal Song

READING Part #3 John 19: 12-24

PRAYERS FOR THE WORLD

READING PART #4 JOHN 19: 25-42

Video Clip ‘Funeral Blues’ 1min 15 BBC

 SENDING OUT

We can’t stay here,

We are a people sent,

Take God’s story with you,

Try to hold onto this disturbing event without jumping ahead

Jesus went to the Cross, stands with us

And invites us to engage with God’s Spirit in our world.

Amen

SONG to listen to/reflect and leave “I Grieve” Peter Gabriel edit