Joint Good Friday Service
Big Springs Community Church invites everyone to our Joint Good Friday Service with Montague Reformation Church and Lake Shastina Community Bible Church.
Date and Time: April 14, 2017 • 6:00 PM
Place: Big Springs Community Church, 7220 Highway A12, Montague, CA 96064
Contact No.: 530.598.7584
The service will have seven Scripture lessons, followed by a meditation and song on each lesson. Each Lesson and Song takes us from an Old Testament prophecy about the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ to its fulfillment in the New Testament.
We also invite you to our next two Sunday services:
April 16, Easter Sunday, 10:30AM:
“You Have Been Raised with Christ” (Psa. 27:3-4; Col. 3:1-4)
April 23, Communion Sunday, 10:30AM & 12:30PM:
Rev. Kevin Efflandt, Pastor of Zion United Reformed Church in Ripon, CA will be preaching and leading worship.
The Good Friday liturgy will be as follows:
* Call to Worship: Psalm 22:27-28
* Salutation: Galatians 1:3-5
* Opening Prayer
First Lesson: The Seed — Genesis 3:15; 1 Corinthians 15:22
Pastor Nollie Malabuyo
God announces a coming Seed of the woman who shall defeat Adam’s tempter.
*Song: All Ye That Fear the Lord God’s Name
Second Lesson: Calvary — Genesis 22:1-2; John 19:14-18
Pastor Justin Hoke
As God provided a ram for Abraham on Mount Moriah, so he also provided for us a Lamb at Calvary.
* Song: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Third Lesson: The Lamb — Exodus 12:26-27; 1 Corinthians 5:7
Pastor John DeWitt
Just as Israel was saved by the blood of their Passover lambs, we are saved by Christ, our Passover Lamb.
* Song: Pastor John and Marsha DeWitt
Fourth Lesson: “Forsaken by God” — Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46
Pastor Nollie Malabuyo
As David sorrows over his sufferings, so Christ laments being cut off from God.
* Song: Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
Fifth Lesson: “I Thirst” — Psalm 69:21; Isaiah 55:1-5; John 19:28
Pastor Justin Hoke
Jesus thirsts for God’s living water, water which he also offers to us.
* Song: My God, My God, O Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Sixth Lesson: “It is Finished” — Isaiah 53:10-11; John 19:30
Pastor John DeWitt
On the cross, Christ finishes his work of justifying his people.
* Song O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Seventh Lesson: “Torn Curtain” — Exodus 26:31-33;
Luke 23:44-46; Hebrews 10:19-25 Pastor Nollie Malabuyo
When Jesus died on the cross, the temple curtain that veiled the Most Holy Place was torn in two, thereby removing the separation between God and his people.
* Song: Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
* Closing Prayer: Pastor Justin Hoke
* Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
* Benediction: Hebrews 13:20-21
* Amen! Three-Fold Amen