Good Friday

Pastor Benjamin Likita  had a Thursday night Communion service and an early morning Good Friday service. He asked me to preach at the Good Friday service. “Early, he said by 6 PM”. I really doubted the time but if we did not show up on time and they were ready at six, that would be bad. I should have known, I did know, but there was no way around it, we arrived on time but the service started at eight. As it turned out there was dancing till about 2AM the night before  and no one was about to get up early including Pastor Ben.  Dancing makes sense like Good Friday makes sense. There was nothing good about that Friday it was violent, unfair, unjust, repressive, and yet it was good for us who deserved the very things that happened to Jesus but are now free. That is what makes that Friday  good and that is why we dance: We are free because we are forgiven!  I spoke on seven different passages, each one a word from Jesus while on the cross. These words are humbling and convicting  exposing our weaknesses, our inability to forgive like Jesus, our inability to think only of others, our inability to give assurance, and our inability to trust God completely. “All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory”, yet those who believe       “ are justified freely by His (God’s ) grace through the redemption that comes by Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3: 23,24). Praise be to God our Savior!