Liturgical Color: Purple

Theme: Jesus Predicts His Death: The Kernel Must Die Before the Wheat is Born.

COMMUNITY GATHERS

Pastoral Invitation
In the name of the one who soon will die, welcome, as we approach the conclusion of Lent. How goes your Lenten observance? What are you learning? What new decisions are you making? Where do you see your life changing? Have you begun to see the reason for Jesus' death, and indeed, death to your old ways? We will experience no Easter without first experiencing Good Friday. God gives us the vision, and the power to fulfill it. Thank God!

Hymn of Praise
"Be Thou My Vision."

Prayer of Praise
Prepare the people for the necessity of Jesus' death, and what his death means to us as the church, as the world.

ACTS OF CONFESSION

Confession of Our Sins
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