A Note from Pastor Dann Farrelly
One of the things I so appreciated during our January fast was the corporate prayer every morning of the week. Three to four hundred of us gathered (and many more on Zoom) to daily partner with the Lord in His heart to see the world healed as we prayed into a deepening revival connected with the Communion celebration. It was wonderful to feast on His presence together. We wanted to create the same sort of sacred, corporate space to pray into revival and deeply experience our gratitude and wonder at the breathtaking love of God displayed in Christ’s death and resurrection.
Holy Week, also called Passion Week, is the week between Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday. It has been celebrated by the global Church for at least 1,600 years. It is a time of reflecting upon and experiencing a deeper revelation of Christ’s work on the Cross. As the week unfolds from Jesus’ triumphant welcome as the Messianic King by the crowds in Jerusalem, all the way to His resurrection from the grave, we are invited to see the divine passion and strategy that God set in motion to restore humanity to Himself and the cost that Christ bore to accomplish it.
The College View Sanctuary will be set up for corporate thanksgiving and prayer from 7:30am to 8:30am, Monday through Friday, March 25-29, 2024. Our amazing worship teams will lead us in adoration, thanksgiving, and celebration Monday through Thursday evenings, from 8:00pm to 9:00pm. s you’re able, bring your Bible, prayer journal, and family to deeply engage with God as we remember and rejoice in the most important moments in history—the self-giving love of the Servant, Suffering, and Glorified King.
In addition to other prayer points, these are some of the key prayer/thanksgiving/worship priorities from Holy Week we will focus on during our time together based on the timeline of Jesus’ journey to Calvary and to Resurrection.
Sunday: The Servant King is temporarily received with joy as the Messiah.
Monday: The King’s zealous desire for a holy House of Prayer where the nations may seek God.
Tuesday: The sign of the withered fig tree proclaims God’s desire for a fruitful and faith-filled people under the Messiah’s reign.
Wednesday: Mary extravagantly worships the King by anointing Him in preparation for His death (this happened earlier in the week).
Thursday: The King serves His disciples by washing their feet, inaugurates the new covenant with the communion meal, and cries out to the Father in anguish in Gethsemane.
Friday: The substitutionary sacrificial suffering and death of the King for us all.
Saturday: Remembering the original disciples' despair in contrast to the later generation’s confident anticipation of Sunday's victory.
Sunday: Resurrection—the Glorified King defeats death and the fear of death.
On Good Friday, we will gather for an hour or so at 4:00pm, 6:00pm and 8:00pm to worship, take communion, and listen to portions of the story concerning our Savior's sacrificial suffering and death. The 6:00pm service will be streamed to our online family. If you won’t be bringing children, would you please consider coming at 8:00pm so we can welcome our kids into the earlier services. Thank you. We hope to see you there for these powerful times.
Some of you may be new to the Lord or not quite understanding the nature and meaning of Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice for our sin. It is a beautiful and multifaceted reality that Scripture and Church have explained in a variety of powerful ways over the centuries. I’ve included a link to a short and beautifully illustrated teaching by the team at the Bible Project called Sacrifice and Atonement that may be quite helpful and/or refreshing. Enjoy.
Grace and Joy,
Dann
