Wednesday -- no MAN Night or any other services
Thursday -- Passover/Communion Meals in homes*
Friday -- Good Friday Service - 7PM
Sunday -- EASTER - 2 Services - 9AM & 11AM
*Passover Meal Instructions
We encourage you to join other families in dinner together on Thursday night. As we celebrate Good Friday (the day Christ was Crucified) on Friday, we are also going to take time to reflect on the night before Jesus was betrayed. This is when he was celebrating the Passover with his disciples. The purpose of this time is not to completely replicate the Jewish Passover (Seder), but rather to take time to read both the Passover story and the story of Jesus celebrating the Passover with his disciples.
Before dinner, read Exodus 12:1-28
- Reflect on some of the specific instructions God gives
- Unleavened bread – reminded them that they did not even have time for the bread to rise before the Lord delivered them
- Bitter herbs – reminded them of the bitterness of slavery
- Look at all of the details regarding the lamb. Why are these details important?
At the end of dinner, read Matthew 26:17-29
Follow the instructions for The Lord’s Supper in:
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Some tips for the night:
- You need unleavened bread (pita bread works well) and some juice.
- Have the communion elements as a part of your meal, so that when you read the passages at the end, you can move right into communion. This will give you a little bit of a feel for what the disciples were experiencing. Jesus was using elements that were already at the table.
- The majority of the evening will be spent enjoying a meal together. This is the point. The reading of the Scripture and the celebration of the Lord’s Supper is simply meant to help focus your time on the Lord. Treasure each part of the evening – even the unscripted parts.
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