Bread and Wine (map)
12627 Huber Road
Bentonville, AR, 72712
United States

Good Friday Gathering

Preamble:
The ancient service of Tenebrae, Latin for “darkness,” is at least 1200 years old and has been observed by Christians all over the world during this time. We will worship in sober reflection this evening as we consider the 7 sayings of Jesus from the cross as we anticipate the victorious message of the empty tomb on Easter Sunday. Each of the paintings around the room represent one of the sayings—the artist is Scott Erickson. We invite you to immerse yourselves in the art, the readings, the song, and allow your heart and mind to wander. More than anything we say or sing, we want you to hear the words of Jesus and listen for God.

Scripture

Mark 15 1Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2 “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
3 The chief priests accused him of many things. 4 So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”
5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6 Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. 8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9 “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews? “asked Pilate, 10 knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12 “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.
13 “Crucify him!” they shouted.
14 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.

Lyrics

O Sacred Head Now Wounded

Verse 1

O sacred Head, now wounded
With grief and shame weighed down
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, Thine only crown
How pale thou art with anguish
With sore abuse and scorn
How does that visage languish
Which once was bright as morn

Verse 2

What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered
T'was all for sinners' gain
Mine, mine was the transgression
But Thine the deadly pain
Lo, here I fall, my Savior
'Tis I deserve Thy place
Look on me with Thy favor
Vouchsafe to me Thy grace

Verse 3

What language shall I borrow
To thank Thee, dearest friend
For this Thy dying sorrow
Thy pity without end
O make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never, never
Outlive my love for Thee

Saying 1: Father, forgive them

Scripture

33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[c] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar 37 and said, “If you are the king of the Jews,save yourself.”

38 There was a written notice above him, which read: this is the king of the jews.

Saying 2: Remember me… paradise

Scripture

39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Lyrics

Song Title

asdfasdf

Saying 3: Woman, behold your son; Son, behold your mother

25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,[b] here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”

Saying 4: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Scripture

45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[c] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

Saying 5: I thirst

Scripture

28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.

Lyrics

All Who Are Thirsty

Verse 1

All who are thirsty
And all who are weak
Come to the fountain
Dip your heart in the streams of life

Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of His mercy
As deep cries out to deep, we sing

Chorus

Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come

Verse

To all who are thirsty
And all who are weak
Come to the fountain
Dip your heart in the streams of life

Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of His mercy
As deep cries out to deep, we sing

Chorus

Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come

Holy Spirit come
Holy Spirit come
Holy Spirit come
Holy Spirit come

Vamp

As deep cries out to deep
As deep cries out to deep
As deep cries out to deep, we sing

Chorus

Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come
Come Lord Jesus, come and breathe on us again
Come Lord Jesus, come

Saying 6: It is finished.

Scripture

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”

Saying 7: Into your hands, I commit my spirit

Scripture

44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”[e] When he had said this, he breathed his last.

Lyrics

Son of Suffering

Verse 1

O the perfect Son of God in all His innocence
Here walking in the dirt with you and me
He knows what living is He's acquainted with our grief
Man of sorrows Son of Suffering

Chorus

Blood and tears how can it be
There's a God who weeps there's a God who bleeds
O praise the one who would reach for me
Hallelujah to the Son of Suffering

Verse 2

Some imagine You are distant and removed
But You chased us down in merciful pursuit
To the sinner You were grace and the broken You embraced
And in the end the proof is in Your wounds
In the end the proof is in Your wounds

Chorus

Blood and tears how can it be
There's a God who weeps there's a God who bleeds
O praise the one who would reach for me
Hallelujah to the Son of Suffering

Bridge

Your cross my freedom Your stripes my healing
All praise King Jesus Glory to God in Heaven
Your blood still speaking Your love still reaching
All praise King Jesus Glory to God forever
(Repeat)

Chorus

Blood and tears how can it be
There's a God who weeps there's a God who bleeds
O praise the one who would reach for me
Hallelujah to the Son of Suffering

Tag

Hallelujah to the Son of Suffering
Hallelujah to the Son of Suffering

Refrain

What can wash away my sin
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again
Nothing but the blood of Jesus

Oh precious is the flow that makes me white as snow
No other fount I know nothing but the blood of Jesus
Glory to God forever
Glory to God forever
Glory to God forever
Glory to God forever

When I Survey the Wonderful Cross

Verse 1

When I survey the wondrous Cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain, I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride

Verse 2

See from His head, His hands, His feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet?
Or thorns compose, so rich a crown

Chorus

Verse 3

Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all

Chorus

Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live

Verse 4

Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all

Chorus