• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • Sermons
  • About
  • Contact

So What Faith

Greg Smith

  • Books
  • Discipleship
  • Social Media
  • Leadership
  • Trends
  • Prayer

A Sensory Maundy Thursday Service (#1389)

2014/04/17 By Greg

5 sensesThis Maundy Thursday, I will be participating in a service unlike any I have ever experienced.  Ron Thompson, Interim Associate Minister at the United Church (Marco Island, FL), has designed a sensory experience that will offer worshipers the opportunity to rotate through five sense specific stations:

  • Smell: anointing oil
  • Sound: Taizé music
  • Sight: stained glass
  • Touch: foot washing
  • Taste: Holy Communion/Eucharist/Lord’s Supper

So What?

While every congregation I have served included additional worship services during Holy Week most have opted either for Maundy Thursday or Good Friday.  The variety of approaches to both services have enriched my faith journey.

  • Share a memory of an especially meaningful Holy Week service you have attended.
  • Have you ever attended a sensory service that sought to intentionally involve all five senses of all worshipers? If so, what was the experience like?

Primary Sidebar

Greg Smith

Greg is a follower of the Way of Jesus who strives to make the world a better place for all people. Currently, he serves as Chief Executive Officer of White Rock Center of Hope and as Interim Senior Pastor of Advent Lutheran Church. He has served ten congregations, taught religion to undergraduates for eight years, and helped three organizations provide quality healthcare to underserved populations. (Read More)

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Are You Part of the 42%? (#2223)
  • Growing for the Future (#2222)
  • Great New Books for May 2025 (#2221)
  • Living with Eyes Wide Open (#2220)
  • Leading Well Starts Here (#2219)

Tags

Advent Lutheran Church Bible blogging Catholic change Christian Christianity church COVID-19 Dallas decline Diana Butler Bass discipleship education ELCA Episcopal Evangelical facebook faith Jesus Leadership love mainline Mainline Protestant marcus borg membership Ministry Naples United Church of Christ ordination pastor PCUSA Pew Research Center Prayer preaching Presbyterian Protestant religion Scot McKnight social media technology theology twitter United Church of Christ United Methodist worship

Copyright © 2025 · So What Faith, a member of The Faith Growth Digital Ministry Network