If the world was as it should be, if all the preparations had gone as planned, tonight I would be at my church with a group of talented musicians and technicians, wrapping up the final preparations for a Good Friday cantata at my church.
Although others of these projects came out of a place of praise or of wonder, this one came from a season of heartbreak and suffering in my own life. All creative works should be an offering of worship in their own way, but this one was in some ways the deepest for me personally.
And so while I can’t describe how well the production turned out, or the experience of directing a Good Friday service for the first time and how it compares to the Christmas season, what I can offer is the story contained in its pages.
“In the Garden we see one kind of broken relationship, between God and man. And here [Golgotha] we see another kind of relationship break: between God and the God-man.”
“…this is a very reverent script that asks very hard questions – because if we’re honest, we’ve probably asked one or more of these questions. The script is trying to be very real and very honest about what it is that even believers who are seeking to trust in the Lord can struggle with….we can resonate with these very human experiences.”