Good Friday Service

Good Friday Service

A service of linked Call to Worship, hymns, Old and New Testament readings, prayers and meditations

Call to Worship:
Today is a solemn day.
The day when we remember
the sufferings and death
of Christ our Lord upon the cross:
the total self-giving of Love
for the beloved
in pain, in humiliation, in despair...

Voice 1 Early in the morning the chief priests met hurriedly with the elders, the teachers of the Law, and the whole Council, and made their plans. They put Jesus in chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "So you say."  The chief priests were accusing Jesus of many things, so Pilate questioned him again, "Aren't you going to answer? Listen to all their accusations!" Again Jesus refused to say a word, and Pilate was amazed. 

Voice 2 "He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly;
he never said a word... 
Like a lamb about to be slaughtered, like a sheep about to be sheared, 
he never said a word....


H & P refers to the Hymns & Psalms Methodist Hymnbook