MORE PEOPLE MORE LIKE CHRIST
7:00PM Service
April 17, 2025
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Thursday, April 17, 2025 7:00PM
PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.
PRELUDE
WORDS OF WELCOME
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: This is the day that Christ, the Lamb of God, gave Himself into the hands of those who would slay Him.
People: This is the day that Christ gathered with His disciples in the upper room for the Passover Feast.
Leader: This is also the day that Christ took a towel and washed His disciples’ feet, giving us an example that we should do to others as He has done to us.
People: This is the day that Christ our God gave us this holy feast, that we who eat this bread and drink this cup may here proclaim His holy sacrifice and be partakers of His resurrection and at the last day reign with Him in heaven.
*PRAYER OF INVOCATION
*HYMN I Will Sing of My Redeemer
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Eternal God, we come recognizing that we share the self-centeredness, inattention and fearfulness of the disciples. We are more concerned with our own place in life than we are about the well-being of others. We exaggerate or belittle our own gifts from You. We feel cut off by others, by our own action of theirs, by misunderstanding or by deliberate intent. We are reluctant to admit mistakes, ask forgiveness, or try new and better ways of caring for others. Grant us better understanding of ourselves, others, and You. Teach us to love as You have loved us. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Leader: Even in the darkness of this night, even in the emptiness of these hours that stretch out before Easter morning, the promise of the Resurrection is still at hand.
All: “If anyone is in Christ Jesus they are a new creation, the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.”
LITURGICAL PRESENTATION
I Set an Example
Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
John 13:1-53
The first candle is extinguished.
ANTHEM
A Servant’s Song
Chancel
Choir and Orchestra
What wondrous love is this? What wondrous love is this?
When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, When I was sinking down, sinking down, When I was sinking down beneath God’s righteous frown, Christ laid aside His crown for my soul, for my soul, Christ laid aside His crown for my soul. Christ laid aside His crown for my soul.
Jesus washed their feet with teardrops. Christ, in mercy, knelt down. Taking up a tattered garment, Jesus laid aside His crown. There before His own creation, Jesus took a servant’s place, Gently washed their feet with teardrops and He bathed their hearts with grace.
Come, all pilgrims, to the table all those weary from the road. Jesus waits to give you comfort. He will wash you white as snow. At the end of ev’ry journey, Jesus waits with fond embrace. He will wash your feet with teardrops. He will bathe your hearts with grace.
Christian, will you be a servant, kneeling in the Savior’s place, Washing feet with mercy’s teardrops, bathing hearts with heaven’s grace?
Jesus, wash our feet with teardrops. Jesus, wash our hearts with grace.
The second candle is extinguished.
HOMILY
“I Did This All for You” Rev.
Jim Noble
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
All who profess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and have been baptized are welcome to partake of the Lord’s Supper. Children who have been baptized and instructed in its meaning are also welcome to partake. There are gluten free options available at the usher stand. Please hold the bread, so that all may commune together, but drink the cup when served.
Why matzo for communion tonight?
Matzo for communion is deeply connected to Passover which is what Jesus was celebrating with His disciples at the Last Supper. In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, during the Last Supper, Jesus breaks some bread–likely unleavened–as matzo is–and tells His disciples to take and eat because it is His body.
The third candle is extinguished.
*HYMN There Is a Redeemer
The fourth candle is extinguished.
SILENT REFLECTION
Depart in silence.
I Pray for You
The Garden of Gethsemane
Matthew 26:36-46
The fifth candle is extinguished.
A Shadow Fell on Sharon’s Rose
Chancel Choir and Orchestra
Go to dark Gethsemane, all who feel the tempter’s pow’r. Your Redeemer’s conflict see. Watch with Him one bitter hour. A shadow fell on Sharon’s Rose in dark Gethsemane, And evening fell as hard as stone beneath the olive trees. A bitter wind began to blow as Jesus prayed at night alone. Father, Father, Father, let Thy will be done.
A petal fell from Sharon’s Rose as Love embraced the throne. For Jesus, there was no repose, no shelter from the storm. A bitter wind began to blow as Jesus drank the cup alone. Father, Father, Father, let Thy will be done. Father, Father, Father, let Thy will be done. Come to dark Gethsemane. Kyrie eleison.
The sixth candle is extinguished.
