For several years I participated in the annual ecumenical Good Friday service at Memorial Presbyterian Church. The responsibility for preaching would be rotated amongst the clergy involved and one year the sermon was basically a verbal depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus. I never saw the Mel Gibson movie, The Passion, but this sermon was at least that gory, if not more so. The point of the sermon was that Jesus suffered greatly in his death, and the greater his suffering the more we faithful Christians are redeemed for our sins. This is the theology of “redemptive sacrifice.” But it is not the only theology of Good Friday. This is the “Other” Good Friday.
Good Friday
April 3, 2015
In the name of the God of all Creation,
The God who is alive in us as God was alive in Jesus,
And the power of God known in the Spirit.
Amen.
April 3, 2015
In the name of the God of all Creation,
The God who is alive in us as God was alive in Jesus,
And the power of God known in the Spirit.
Amen.
