Sunday Worship Service
MAUNDY THURSDAY
April 17, 2025 – 10:30 AM
The worship service begins 15 minutes into the recording.
WELCOME
Welcome! We are grateful that God has brought us together. If you are a first-time visitor, please email Pastor Jinwoo at pastor@saint-matthews.org. We would love to stay in contact with you. Thank you.
OPENING SONG
Gethsemane Hymn by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
INVITATION TO THE LORD’S TABLE
The Last Supper shows us who is welcome at Christ’s table:
People who sometimes trust, and sometimes question,
who are sometimes fearful, sometimes bold.
Liars and backsliders, doubters and deniers,
and those who still struggle to get free of what the world calls power, but commit to revolution anyway.
Impulsive people. Imperfect people. People who mess up over and over—but try again, and again, and again.
In short: each and every one of us.
So let no one ever tell you that you are not welcome here: Jesus wants you at his table, exactly as you are.
SONG – Together
Let Us Be Bread – Faith We Sing (black book) #2260
GREAT THANKSGIVING
Pastor: With all whom our society fails to protect: those who are unhoused, and those whose homes are fractured by violence, those experiencing mental illness or addiction, and all who are shoved to the margins,
People: Persecuted Christ, abide.
Pastor: And when the in-between becomes permanent with no going back to how things were, in our moments of despair at the world’s pain, we cry out, “How long, O Lord!”
People: Abide with us, everlasting God. Abide with us.
Pastor: Co-creating and co-suffering God, we can count on Your steadfast presence even when we doubt and demand answers.
Teach us to share in one another’s pain, becoming Your hands and feet on earth. And now, as we break this bread and drink from this cup, may this meal nourish us.
Pour out Your Spirit upon this holy feast, the one You shared with friends and betrayers, not long before You took your last breath.
May it give us courage, just as it surely gave You courage on that night many years ago. All: Amen.
SONG – Together
Taste and See – Faith We Sing (black book) #2267
REFLECTION
Luke 22:24-27
Jesus humbles himself as a servant host. He nourishes his dearest companions, and also those who will soon betray him. He entreats the disciples to be “ones who serve.”
Compare and contrast his embodiment of power with the type of power that Judas and the disciples ultimately seek: a power that is gained through money and control, a power-over vs. power-with.
1. In your own life, how do you practice different types of power?
2. Who are modern servant leaders you look up to?
3. What are the defining characteristics of their leadership style? How do they use their power and privileges?
4. How will I, as a follower of Jesus, use my privileges and power as “one who serves”?
HANDWASHING
SONG – Together
As We Gather at Your Table – Faith We Sing (black book) #2268
BLESSING