Welcome toLutheran Church of Our Savior

1920 W. Fair AvenueLancaster, OH 43130

Welcome to all who read this service. During this time of social distancing, we are all united in Jesus Christ by divine love and grace. Look on our website, www.oursaviorlancater.org for devotional resources. We may also be found on Facebook, The Lutheran Church of Our Savior.

By His Wounds We Are HealedGood Friday

Jesus suffers unto death for our sin.April 10, 2020

OPENING HYMN… “Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless”

Lamb of God, pure and sinless, once on the cross an off’ring,Patient, meek, though guiltless, forsaken in your suff’ring!You died our guilt to banish that none in sin need perish!

Grant us your mercy, O Jesus!

Lamb of God, pure and sinless, once on the cross an off’ring, Patient, meek, though guiltless, forsaken in your suff’ring!You died our guilt to banish that none in sin need perish!

Grant us your mercy, O Jesus!

Lamb of God, pure and sinless, once on the cross an off’ring,Patient, meek, though guiltless, forsaken in your suff’ring!You died our guilt to banish that none in sin need perish!

Your peace be with us, O Jesus! Amen.

WELCOME

RESPONSE

A In the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

A It was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.

C When you make his life an offering for sin,

A he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;

C through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.

A Christ was wounded for our transgressions,2

C crushed for our iniquities;A upon him was the punishment that made us whole,

C and by his wounds we are healed.

*CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSP Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another.

A brief silence may be observed.

C Most merciful God, we confess to you that we have broken your commandments by our own thoughts, words, and deeds. We have deserved the penalty of death and condemnation for turning our backs on you. We have not loved our brothers and sisters as we ought, and we have not cared for your creation. For the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, and give us the healing power of your love that we may walk again in your ways and live to the glory of your holy name. Amen.

P God is gracious and merciful, and he desires that we be made free of the burden of our sins. Through Jesus Christ, who bore the cross for our sake and for the sake of the whole world, there is healing, hope, and life. Your sins are forgiven in the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.C Amen.

*Hymn … “Were You There”Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

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Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

THE WORD

Old Testament Reading … Genesis 3:14-19 (NRSV)

14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,    cursed are you among all animals    and among all wild creatures;upon your belly you shall go,    and dust you shall eat    all the days of your life.15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,    and between your offspring and hers;he will strike your head,    and you will strike his heel.”16 To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing;    in pain you shall bring forth children,yet your desire shall be for your husband,    and he shall rule over you.”17 And to the man[a] he said,“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife,    and have eaten of the tree

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about which I commanded you,    ‘You shall not eat of it,’cursed is the ground because of you;    in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;    and you shall eat the plants of the field.19 By the sweat of your face    you shall eat breaduntil you return to the ground,    for out of it you were taken;you are dust,    and to dust you shall return.”

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Psalm 22Plea for Deliverance from Suffering and HostilityTo the leader: according to The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?    Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;    and by night, but find no rest.3 Yet you are holy,    enthroned on the praises of Israel.4 In you our ancestors trusted;    they trusted, and you delivered them.5 To you they cried, and were saved;    in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.6 But I am a worm, and not human;    scorned by others, and despised by the people.

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7 All who see me mock at me;    they make mouths at me, they shake their heads;8 “Commit your cause to the LORD; let him deliver—    let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb;    you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.10 On you I was cast from my birth,    and since my mother bore me you have been my God.11 Do not be far from me,    for trouble is near    and there is no one to help.12 Many bulls encircle me,    strong bulls of Bashan surround me;13 they open wide their mouths at me,    like a ravening and roaring lion.14 I am poured out like water,    and all my bones are out of joint;my heart is like wax;    it is melted within my breast;15 my mouth is dried up like a potsherd,    and my tongue sticks to my jaws;    you lay me in the dust of death.16 For dogs are all around me;    a company of evildoers encircles me.My hands and feet have shriveled; 17 I can count all my bones.They stare and gloat over me;18 they divide my clothes among themselves,    and for my clothing they cast lots.19 But you, O LORD, do not be far away!    O my help, come quickly to my aid!20 Deliver my soul from the sword,    my life from the power of the dog!21     Save me from the mouth of the lion!

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From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued me.22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;    in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!    All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;    stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!24 For he did not despise or abhor    the affliction of the afflicted;he did not hide his face from me,    but heard when I cried to him.25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;    my vows I will pay before those who fear him.26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;    those who seek him shall praise the LORD.    May your hearts live forever!27 All the ends of the earth shall remember    and turn to the LORD;and all the families of the nations    shall worship before him.28 For dominion belongs to the LORD,    and he rules over the nations.29 To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down;    before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,    and I shall live for him.30 Posterity will serve him;    future generations will be told about the Lord,31 and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,    saying that he has done it.

Epistle Reading … Romans 6:20-23  (NRSV)

20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things

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is death. 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

*LENTEN ACCLAMATION

*Gospel Reading … John 19:23-30 (NRSV)P The Holy Gospel according to John, chapter 19.C Glory to you, O Lord.

23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says,“They divided my clothes among themselves,    and for my clothing they cast lots.”25 And that is what the soldiers did.Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple

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whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.28 After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

P The Gospel of the Lord. C Praise to you, O Christ.

Children’s Time

Today, we remember the cross of Jesus. We remember the cross of Jesus, really, every time we gather here. But we especially remember it because it is a special day of remembrance. It is Good Friday, the day on which Jesus died on the cross. Have any of you ever played or heard of the game called “Monopoly”? It’s a board game, and there’s one place on the board that you never want to land. Do you know what it is? It says, “Go to jail.” When you do, you’re kind of stuck there for a while. You don’t get to play with the other players. You just sit there and stay there like a penalty box in hockey. Still, there’s one card in the deck that says, “Get out of jail free!” That’s a nice card to have if you’re stuck in jail, isn’t it? Well, consider the cross our “get out of penalty free.” It’s free for us, and we are forever free through the cross—and that’s good news for us. But it wasn’t free for Jesus. He gave his life for us. We are drawn to him for that because without him we could never really be free. But through him, we are free, indeed.

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Let us pray. Lord Jesus, thank you for making me free from death and sin through your cross. Amen. By Michael Hoy. © 2020 Creative Communications for the Parish, a division of Bayard, Inc.,

Sermon Hymn … “By Your Wounds We All Are Healed”

Jesus, Savior of the people, giver of unending grace,Heal our lives that now are feeble; bless us in this holy place.

You came to earth and transformed all under your gentle reign.

By your wounds we all are heal-ed; sing the song we who remain.

Jesus, by your teaching, healing, sharing meal with one and all,

You invite all those believing, everyone who hears your call,Warming hearts in hope unbounded, spreading love throughout the

plain. By your wounds we all are heal-ed; sing the song of glad

refrain!

When the cries to crucify you were the wounding words you hear,

Even then, you made all things new with forgiveness, love so dear! By our sin you were afflicted, on the cross you bore

death’s pain,By your wounds we all are heal-ed; sing the song we who

remain.

Sermon (posted separately on the website)

*Apostle’s Creed

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C I believe in God, the Father almighty,creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.He was conceived by the power of the Holy

Spirit,and born of the virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell.*On the third day he rose again.He ascended into heaven,

and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church,the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and the life everlasting. Amen*Or, He descended to the dead.

Prayers of the People

A Let us pray for the Church, for all in need, and for the whole of God’s creation. That in these three holy days you may give your people hope that it is Jesus, our Lord, who leads the way and takes into his body on the cross the sins of the whole world.C Heal us, O God.

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A That the cross of Christ, our Lord, may be our final hope and salvation.C Heal us, O God.

A That the cross of Christ may be held before the eyes of all who are seeking hope beyond the depths of despair and doom.C Heal us, O God.

A That the cross of Christ may be the throne of grace that is more powerful than all the thrones and kingdoms of this world.C Heal us, O God.

A That the cross of Christ may gather all the saints together as the sign and symbol of our victory over death.C Heal us, O God.

A Into your healing, wounded hands for our sake, we commend all for whom we pray. C By Christ’s wounds, we are healed. Amen.

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OFFERING

LORD’S PRAYER

PROCESSION OF THE CROSS

P Behold the life giving cross, on which was hung the Savior of the whole world.C Oh, come, let us worship him.

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*BLESSINGP May the healing presence of almighty God, Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit, be with you now and always.C Amen

Closing Hymn … “O Perfect Life of Love”

O perfect life of love! All, all is finished now,All that He left his throne above. To do for us below.

In perfect love He dies; For me He dies, for me. O all-atoning sacrifice, I cling by faith to Thee.

By Michael Hoy. © 2020 Creative Communications for the Parish, a division of Bayard, Inc., 1564 Fencorp Dr., Fenton, MO 63026. 800-325-9414. www.creativecommunications.com. All rights reserved. Additional materials from Sundays and Seasons. Adapted by Rev. Diana K. Gugel.

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Welcome Family and Friends: We reach out the gift of our fellowship, acceptance and love to every person who worships with us as we are united in our reading of this service. May God's word nourish your hunger, encourage your faith, heal your suffering, and fill you with love, joy and peace. Please use any of the reasons we are providing via our website and/or on Facebook and in other ways as our time of distancing and new ways of connection are discovered.

Our Mission Statement: To share God=s love and grace.

Weekly EventsWorship Service: Sunday 10:30 a.m. SUSPENDED Sunday School: SUSPENDEDThursdays: 7:00 p.m. Knitting Plus—Virtual meetings may take place.

NOTE: our church #, 653-5713 is now working.Contact PeoplePastor Diana K. Gugel (Cell) 808-4120Music Director: Dana Shouldis 653-3776Acolytes: Brenda Henwood 756-4950Altar Guild: 653-5713Care & Witness: 653-5713Christian Education: Wray Bryant 681-1768

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Diners-On-A-Budget: 653-5713Friends in Need: Marlene Oliver 653-0917Food Pantry: Carlene Ayers 756-4593Friendship Circle 653-5713Lutheran Youth Org: 653-5713Property Committee: 653-5713Worship and Music Committee: Dana Shouldis 653-3776Choir Director: Carlene Ayers 756-4593

Church Council Brenda Henwood - Secretary, Mike Ayers-Treasurer, Marianne Cox, Mel Jensen, Kara Mendenhall, Paul Riehm, Pastor Diana.

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