Seeing the Saviour

‘Seeing the Saviour’

At the turn of the century the National Gallery hosted an exhibition entitled ‘The Image of Christ: Seeing Salvation’ – the exhibition involved a wide variety of paintings that depicted Jesus, telling the story of how different generations in church history have ‘seen’ Jesus. I know that a number of people from Holy Trinity went along and, like me, found it fascinating.

In our Lent Series this year we are following Luke’s account of the last days of Jesus' earthly ministry – from the events in the Upper Room to his resurrection appearance on the Emmaus Road.

Each session has an accompanying painting for us to reflect on prior to coming to the Bible passage.  In each case the artist has taken an event in the gospel and presented his own interpretation of it. We’ll spend a few minutes each time looking at the painting, and asking questions about it e.g. How does the artist want us to see Jesus? How does this painting make you feel? Does it bring any other Bible truths / passages to mind? etc.

There will also be bible exposition, time to pray, and opportunity for group discussion during each session.

We begin our series this evening with the events in the Upper Room:  As the disciples eat the Passover meal, Jesus speaks to them of his suffering and betrayal, of his blood 'poured out for you', which point them to him as the perfect fulfillment of the Passover.

I look forward to joining those of you who are able to come along on Wednesday evening, and I pray that each of us will see Jesus more clearly as we approach Easter through Luke’s gospel.

‘Seeing the Saviour’

Week 1         The Last Supper (Luke 22:7-23)

Week 2         Jesus in Gethsemane / Jesus’ Arrest (Luke 22:24-53)

Week 3         Jesus’ Trial (Luke 22: 54-71, 23: 1-25)

Week 4         The Crucifixion (Luke 23:26-56)

Week 5         The Risen Jesus on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:1-35)