Letio continua, continua and continua
A colluege of mine from a church for whom the RCL is no strange thing, expressed disatisfaction with it because he wanted to preach straight through books (I assume of the Bible, but since he follows Schuller , who knows.) His dissatisfaction stunned me. We are entering ordinary time and everything is Lectio Continua. My biggest struggle is which route to preach.
Do I preach through the shorter Epistles? Do I do the Prophets? Do I go for the long haul and preach straight through Luke to the end of the year? Three years ago I think I started in the Epistles and jumped over to do a series in Jeremiah (That is when I started this blog). So this time I guess I ought to buckle down and preach the gospel. That should make my Lutheran friends happy since that is all they preach.
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The great thing about the lectionary is you can TAKE YOUR TIME (a very un-pentecostal notion - I was raised one myself); Time is on our side (to quote the theologian Mick Jagger)!
SO, you can do a whole season in the prophets, then three years later a whole season in the epistles, then three years later revisit the season by focusing on the gospels! Ah - NINE WHOLE YEARS of material.
Ken Myers
www.kennethmyers.net
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