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HOLY WEEK ACTION POINT – GOOD FRIDAY
Friday, April 6th, 2012
BEYOND THE CROSS…..
My good friend from work, Joe C., was stationed in Germany, while serving in the United States Air Force during the 1970’s, when he was led to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ by the famed Navigators. One summer, on the way to the coast of France for some vacation with some other Air Force buddies, he came across this man carrying a Cross just outside of Madrid, Spain!
Stopping to talk to him, Joe found it this man was Arthur Blessitt, a wonderful American who has walked and talked the Cross in every nation of the world, over 44 years! Blessitt was already well known in Christian circles during the Jesus Movement of the 1970s, during which even pop singer Bob Dylan claimed to be “born again”. Of course, Dylan was never really saved, but caught up in the emotion of the moment. Arthur is listed in the Guinness World Records for the world’s longest walk over 39,671 miles, through 319 countries & major island groups in those 44 years*. He began to carry the Cross in 1968, after hearing the Call of God, from his Hollywood, California church!
Joe followed Blessitt into Madrid where he was welcomed by small evangelical churches. Joe was at one of these services. Blessitt mentioned this visit in his book and movie “The Cross” because it was here a religious mob attacked and roughed up! Some 30 years later, Joe would make me a Cross like the one he saw Arthur carrying.
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HOLY WEEK ACTION POINTS – THURSDAY
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
SERVE ONE ANOTHER AS HE SERVED US
1. The Institution of Communion, and the New Covenant.
2. The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet.
3. The High Priestly Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane and His Agony (John 17).
4. The Betrayal of Jesus by the treacherous Judas.Of these, the Washing of the Disciples Feet stands as a summation of WHY Jesus came to live and die as the humble, Suffering Servant. Anyone accustomed with Middle Eastern customs know that anything to do with feet – from shoes and sandals to washing dusty, dirty feet is the domain of the lowest of slaves.
Yet, here was the Creator of Everything in the Universe, on the ground with a basin of water, washing the same feet of sinful men. Of these men, one would sell Him out to be killed, one would deny Him three times, the rest would run for the hills and only one would stand up with Him on the Day of His murder – the Apostle John!!!!