Maundy Thursday

Prelude

Lighting of the Christ Candle

(Phil) John 1:1-5

Song: How Deep the Father’s Love for Us

Introduction: Todd

Guided Prayer

Thank You for sending Your Son to be Immanuel, God with us.

Thank You for revealing Yourself through Jesus as He brought both physical and spiritual healing to those who received Him.

Thank You for the teaching of Jesus that led away from ritual religiosity to a faith based on a relationship with the living God.

Thank You for the example Jesus gave to us of a man fully devoted to Your will.

Song: What Wondrous Love Is This

What wondrous love is this...

To God and to the Lamb...

And when from death I’m free...

(Eric) Mark 14:12-25

And on the first day of Unleavened Bread

when they sacrificed the Passover lamb

his disciples said to him,

“Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 

And he sent two of his disciples

and said to them, 

“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you.

Follow him, 

and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 

‘The Teacher says,

Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 

And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready;

there prepare for us.” 

And the disciples set out

and went to the city

and found it just as he had told them

and they prepared the Passover

And when it was evening, he came with the twelve. 

And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, 

“Truly, I say to you,

one of you will betray me, 

one who is eating with me.” (Pause)

They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another,

“Is it I?” 

He said to them, 

“It IS one of the twelve, 

one who is dipping bread into the dish with me. 

For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him,

but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! 

It would have been better for that man

if he had not been born.”

And as they were eating,

he took bread,

and after blessing it

broke it

and gave it to them,

and said, “Take; 

this is my body.” (Pause)

And he took a cup,

and when he had given thanks he gave it to them,

and they all drank of it. 

And he said to them, 

“This is my blood of the covenant,

which is poured out for many. 

Truly, I say to you,

I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Lord’s Supper

Song : The Wondrous Cross

Guided Prayer

Thank You that Jesus was willingly sent to give Himself for us.

Forgive us when we flee from Your presence, seeking our own way instead of Yours.

Forgive us when our actions deny Your presence in our lives.

Thank you for Jesus’ atoning work which grants us forgiveness for our sin and freedom for our souls as we repent and turn to You.

Song : O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

Devotional: Todd

(Phil) Mark 15:15-20

Song : Behold the Lamb of Glory/Hallelujah, What a Savior

Extinguish the Christ Candle

Time in Darkness

Relighting the Christ Candle

(Todd) John 8:12, John 16:16

Prayer and Dismissal in Silence