Here’s
a responsive reading for Good Friday from the Mennonite Church Canada Resource Centre website.
Where are you?
1: Where am I?
I confess I am not always at the
cross.
It’s easy to be distracted and let
my
attention move here and there.
2: I confess, I’m not always grateful for
the death of Jesus.
A person gets busy with all sorts of
things.
1: Good things, mind you,
like family and church committees
and responsibilities to aging parents.
Community projects.
2: Doing homework, shopping.
Part time work.
Life gets hectic.
1: And burdensome.
2: I confess I try to carry my own
burdens.
1: And work out my own salvation.
2: I like to be in control.
1: I wonder, do I betray Jesus with my
self-sufficiency?
2: Do I deny him with my self-centered
living?
1,2: All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have all turned to our own way.
2: We have been ungrateful.
1: Our hearts have not been humble.
2: Our spirits are not contrite.
1: Teach us how to find your presence,
God, at the cross.
2: Teach us how to share the death of
Jesus.
1,2: But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that
made us whole
and by his bruises we are healed.
Congregation
may join in the singing of “Were you
there…”
~
from Were You There When they Crucified
My Lord: A dramatic reading for the passion week. Posted in the From Our Churches archive on the
Mennonite Church Canada Resource Centre website. http://resources.mennonitechurch.ca/FileDownload/12979/Were_You_There_When_They_Crucified_My_Lord.pdf
