The Holy Week Chronicles

Dear Worshipers,

The Holy Week Chronicles

For the last few months at church we have been examining what is involved in the process of becoming like Jesus. We have worked our way through this outline: 1.Preconditions to holy living: Separation and Submission, Consistent evidences of a disciplined life: Supplication, Sacrifice, Simplicity, and Sincerity, and The maintenance of a disciplined life: Solitude, Secrecy, Song and Service. If we have been paying attention through this series as Pastor David has chronicled the scriptural evidence behind each of these assertions, we know even better what will be required of us “To Be Like Jesus”.

But now comes the rub. Has this merely been an intellectual exercise, or a spiritual discipline. This short series that Pastor David is taking us through this week will highlight which it is for each of us because there is truly no way to discover how serious you are about becoming like Christ until you consider His passion, His journey to and through the cross. I hope you will walk the Jesus road with us this week as we consider where we are in our conformity to the Son of God.

One way to allow yourself to walk the road is to look this week at the Scriptures which tell us of Jesus’ reactions to a number of different situations throughout that week. Pastor David gave us this list on Sunday with the instruction to consider what your response would be in each of these situations. I encourage you again to take this path to Easter.

Reading List
Sunday-Mark 11.1-10 (A clamoring crowd)
Monday-John 13.1-5,12-17 (Washing feet)
Tuesday-Matthew 26.36-46 (Prayer partners)
Wednesday-Matthew 26.47-56 (Kiss and run)
Thursday-Luke 2254-62 (Peter's denial)
Friday-Mark 15.21-32 (Saving others)
Saturday-John 19.38-42 (Borrowed tomb)
Sunday-Luke 24.1-12 (Faithful women)

How will you chronicle this Holy Week for yourself? Will there be an evident pursuit of the Lord and His glory? Will the love and life of the Savior be obvious? Will you die to your will and give yourself up for the Father’s? Will you serve when no one else seems to want to? Will you watch and pray? Will you stand up for the Lord, or run away?

If a reporter were following you around this week with the intent on creating an exposé of your life, would it be obvious you were about the Father’s business or your own? Or would it expose the fact that you are about your own? Let us be found guilty of walking the Jesus road. This week and every week.

In Christ,

Pastor Scott