by Clément Tendo
Leader: 5 In your relationships with one another,
have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
ALL: 6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
Leader: 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,
ALL: he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Leader: 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
ALL: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord!
by Clément Tendo
Leader: 11a Remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth … 12 you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
ALL: 14 For He himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations.
Leader: His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16a and in one Body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross…
ALL: 18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Leader: 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
ALL: 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In Him we are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.
by Clément Tendo
Leader: The Lord says, 24 I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.
ALL: 25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean.
I will wash your sins away, and you will no longer worship idols.
Leader: 26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you.
ALL: I will take out your heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh.
Leader: 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my Word and be careful to obey my laws.
ALL: Holy Spirit, we invite you to move in us while we worship today.
Give us new hearts! Make us more like Jesus! Amen!
by Clément Tendo
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, 15 just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd. 17 “The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. 18 No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”
by Clément Tendo
45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
