Prayer: Father in Heaven, without pain how can I know pleasure? Without sorrow, joy is meaningless. Help me to feel your comfort in times of trial and to discover the gifts in every hardship. Amen.
Reading: John 18: 1- 19: 42 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Today is commonly called “Good Friday,” but the reading takes us through Jesus’ arrest, flogging, betrayals by Judas and Peter, mocking by the Romans and the crowds, crucifixion and stabbing, death and burial. It is a passage of cruel and heart wrenching imagery, seeming to hold nothing “good” in all the treachery and pain. Yet…
But the true excellence in this narrative is, of course, in what followed. For without His death in fulfillment of the scriptures, His resurrection could not have happened. As horrible and unimaginable as was this Friday, so unimaginably wonderful is our salvation. Every moment of that Friday was for The Good, our good God. --Heather LeBlanc
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