WELCOME TO WORSHIP | MAUNDY THURSDAY | march 28, 2024

WELCOME | Pastor Peytyn Tobin

WAYS TO CONNECT | christchurchfl.org/ways2connect

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Pastor Peytyn Tobin

We are Jesus’ disciples, following him even as he moves toward the cross.
Even as he wraps a towel around his waist. Even as he kneels to wash the filth from the feet of his friends.
We are Jesus’ disciples, longing to be faithful even as the night grows dark.
Even as betrayers loom. Even as the powers that oppose the way of Christ press in around us.
We are Jesus’ disciples, struggling to love others even as Jesus loved us.
We are Jesus’ disciples, gathered here to worship God: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer.

* GATHERING HYMN

Take your Shoes off

As Christ invited friends to share in one last holy meal

We gather here in song and prayer to witness Christ revealed.

(refrain) Take your shoes off, let me wash you, you’re on holy ground.

Take your walls down, let me love you Christ is all around.

As grains of wheat are gathered in to be one loaf of bread,

We are one body following where Jesus Christ has led. (refrain)

To be the body of Christ has called, we follow Christ’s command:
To love and serve each other well and seek to understand. (refrain)

John H. Stockton, Anna Strickland | © 2021 by Anna Strickland. Commissioned by A Sanctified Art, LLC. Free for congregational use. Used by permission.

* OPENING PRAYER | Pastor Monique McBride
Ever-gracious God, we gather in this evening hour as friends gathered with Jesus in an Upper Room long ago. We come bearing the marks and burdens of a bitter and broken world. We come from anonymous places, with dry and thirsty spirits. Remind us, in the breaking of the bread, of our need and of your great sufficiency. Refresh us and make us whole with the cup of forgiveness. Draw us nearer to each other in mutual service and closer to you in the covenant of faithfulness and thanksgiving. As the night advances, deepen in us a sense of your steadfast love for us in Jesus Christ, our friend and Redeemer. Amen.

INTRODUCTION OF SEDER

On this most holy night, a meal spans time, faith traditions, and all that divides. Around a table, we remember the story of Passover. A story of deliverance from oppression and slavery, a story that defined a people.

With bread and cup, we remember.

Like our Jewish brothers and sisters throughout time, we pray, “Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha’ olam, boreim p’ri hagafen.” Blessed are you, Lord our God, ruler of the Universe, who created the fruit of the vine. 

With bread and cup, we remember.

As Jesus sat with his friends around a table celebrating this very meal, he gave this meal new meaning, promising again deliverance from oppression and slavery to sin, a new story that came to define a people.

With bread and cup, we remember.

We remember the way Jesus took the cup, blessed it and said, whenever you drink of this cup, remember me. 

With bread and cup, we remember.

Though the bread and cup of these most holy meals have taken on new meanings and new forms throughout history, they continue to be symbols and practices of the ways God delivers, God defines, God redeems what is broken and invites all to the table. 

With bread and cup, we remember.

Tonight, we come to the table with our own stories of enslavement, our own need for freedom from that which divides us from God, from one another, and from whom God is calling us to be. With these stories, we lift up all who are in need of a place at the table, of a meal to eat, and just such a story of hope, restoration, and belonging. Tonight, we take our place at God’s table and remember old stories- stories of hope, stories of wholeness. With these stories, we remember who we are and the stories to which we belong and give thanks.

With bread and cup, we remember. Amen.

OFFERING

Christ Church is a congregationally supported ministry. We thank you for your faithfulness.

• You may place your gifts and tithes to the church in the wooden box as you leave tonight.
• You may also give online at christchurchfl.org/give
• text GIVE to 954.880.3885
• or mail a check to Christ Church, 4845 NE 25^th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 

You may give a love offering to the dramatists of Crumbs in the box on the table as you leave worship. 

MUSIC MINISTRY

Is it I, Lord? | Mark Kellner

Chancel Choir

Surrounded by his friends, seated at his table, He drew them close, to tell them of his love. The twelve he knew so well, thought that they were able to follow him wherever he would go. But then, to their surprise, sadness filled his eyes; he told his friends how one of them would give him up to evil men. And suddenly, the room filled with their cries: Is it I, Lord? Am I the one to send you to the cross? How could I be the one to betray God's only Son? Surrounded by our friends, seated at the table, we recall the story of his love, how He gave his life, as only he was able. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice. It was I, Lord! I'm the one that sent you to the cross. You have paid my price by your guiltless sacrifice. It was I, Lord!

© 1996 Hope Publishing | All rights reserved | Used with permission under One License #A-726973

INTRODUCTION OF THE PLAY, CRUMBS

THE LORD’S SUPPER

* SENDING FORTH 

Join us!  GOOD FRIDAY | March 29 | 7pm | fort lauderdale sanctuary

EASTER SUNDAY | MARCH 31

Fort Lauderdale Campus

Sunrise Service | 6:30am | Christ Church Field

Praise Service | 9am | Christ Church Field     
 Holy Grounds | after the 9am service | breezeway     
 The Egg Hunt | 10:30am | lawn west of the sanctuary

Traditional Service | 11am | sanctuary

Parkway Campus | 100 NE 44th Street, Deerfield Beach

  Breakfast & worship | 9am               Easter Egg Hunt | after the service