A Creative Service For The Sundays Of Lent

The service below is intended for use by those from a Protestant evangelical tradition including those who seek to combine the traditional and the contemporary in their worship. The Basic Pattern Worship Space. You will probably want to display an Ash Wednesday banner; consider also adding a banner for the first Sunday in Lent. This banner could express, representationally or abstractly, the theme of this Sunday's Service of the Word, namely, our prayer and longing "to see:" to see and receive Jesus as our way and our truth. A brief explanation of the symbolism of the banner could be given in the church bulletin. (You might provide banners for each Sunday in Lent, to remind the people and encourage them along their Lenten journey. Since the service will stress our creatureliness, you can give this emphasis more visual force by arranging the chairs or pews (if they are moveable) in a circle, symbolizing both the earth and the community in which we are members. The Eucharist table o…