Since the Fourth Century, Christians have been stopping in the midst of all of life's goings on on this night to pause and reflect on the enormity of God's love for us poured out on the cross of Jesus Christ. We will join with other believers tonight across time and across the earth and sit at the foot of the cross, praising Jesus for His faithfulness through to the unimaginable end.
In furtherance of our focus on John's gospel for the past several months, we will be reading his account of Christ's passion together, Chapters 18 and 19 in their entirety. In addition to our readers, the rest of us will also join in and serve as the voice of individuals and the crowd in the settings in which we find Jesus tonight. We will be the voice of a servant girl, of Annas, other servants and officers, and so on. From the start as Judas’ entourage of soldiers and officials in the garden to the crowd’s cries at the end of Jesus’ trial, we will be the voice of the world both then and now.
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