The Nail

Being Part of the Passion

By: Stephen Cottrell

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Paperback | 17 November 2011

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12 Pages

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19.84 x 12.85 x 0.51

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Imagine you hold in your hands one of the nails used to crucify Christ. Do you accept responsibility for your part in his death, or do you blame another? The Nail makes you part of the Passion. Moving, first-person accounts from eye-witnesses and active participants place you right in heart of events leading to the crucifixion and beyond. Each account can be used as a personal reflection, a focus for group discussion, sermon base or even performed as a monologue. As each witness tells their story they give their excuse for passing responsibility for the crucifixion nails to another who then takes up the story. With the relevant Bible text included, each account concludes with a prayer of confession that lays bare our own hearts as well as those of the Bible witnesses. The final chapter raises the all-important, life-changing question for 'The Nail' characters and for us: 'will you let Jesus forgive you? Helpful guidelines give you practical suggestions for using The Nail as a new and thought-provoking group study or inclusion in a Good Friday liturgy.

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The voices are engaging and familiar: the centurion is - appropriately from the pen of the Bishop of Chelmsford - a stereotypical Essex Man, rough and uncouth, but impressed by Jesus in spite of himself. Pilate talks in the tone of a dessicated philosophy don, analysing the nature of truth and meaningful statements. Caiaphas is a senior politician, pompously aware of his status and his responsibility to take the long view.', Church Times '. . . worth its weight in gold . . . powerful and emotive.', Expository Times '. . . short . . . powerful and moving.', The Reader

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