Ten Reasons Why I Call Good Friday “Good”
 
  1. Good Friday is called good because the Son of God, who is good, died for me, a sinner, on the cross. (Romans 5:8).
  2. Good Friday is called good because in the Cross of Christ, I, an enemy of God, was counted neither a trespasser nor a debtor, but instead was counted beloved, and reconciled back to God as His child. (Romans 5:10)
  3. Good Friday is called good because though I once was unworthy, now by the blood shed by Christ upon His Cross, I have been made pure and holy. (Colossians 1:21-22)
  4. Good Friday is called good because on His Cross, Jesus said, “It is finished!” Thereby offering the full and perfect sacrifice of Himself once and for all to God on my behalf, for all my sins. (John 19:30, Hebrews 9:26)
  5. Good Friday is called good because sin, the devil, and ultimately death were all defeated today 2,000 years ago by Jesus’ victory on the Cross for my sake. (I Corinthians 15:55, 57)
  6. Good Friday is called good because God took the greatest humiliation ever suffered by the most innocent man who ever lived, the crucifixion of Jesus, and transformed it into the doorway of eternal life for all who trust and follow Him. (John 3:14-16)
  7. Good Friday is called good because Christ reveals His deep and sacrificial love for me, and that He is proud to call me His friend, (John 15:13-15)
  8. Good Friday is called good because in the Cross of Christ, I have been crucified with Christ and am no longer enslaved to sin. (Romans 6:6)
  9. Good Friday is called good because on the Cross, Christ tore down the dividing wall of hostility between those in His kingdom and those outside of His kingdom, and made me an heir of His kingdom, and an inheritor of all the manifold blessings and riches of heaven. (Ephesians 2:14, 1:18)
  10. Good Friday is called good because the Cross, a tool of death, has now become a tree of life to all who, by faith in Christ, find eternal life under its shade. (I Peter 2:24)
 
A Prayer
O Lord Jesus Christ, my merciful High Priest who came down from heaven to earth from the bosom of your eternal Father, and who shed your precious blood and offered to the Father a pure offering, to reconcile sinners to God by the infinite merits of your life, your passion, and your death: give me grace, I pray, to die to the world, and to live to you alone. Amen.
Adapted from St. Augustine’s Prayer Book
(Revised Edition, 1967), pg. 289, 38
The Rev. John D. Sundara
Vicar for Worship and Evangelism
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