How are Scripture readings decided in your church?

[Filia Mariae]

How is it decided what Scripture readings will be read in church on any given Sunday, in your particular church?

 

[Lotar]

The pastor decides the scripture that will be read. Presently, he is going through the entire bible, so a chapter or 2 are read every week.

 

[Oblio]

Lotar, love your sigs

What ensures that certain Scripture is not glossed over or ignored, IOW that all of the Gospel is preached and not just those that the Pastor thinks are important or will go down smooth.

Note: I ask this in general to those whose Pastor selects the Scripture and not as a follow on to Lotar's response.

 

[Filia Mariae]

Does he just read straight through beginning to end? Or does he jump around?

 

[Foundthelight]

The Pastor decides based on the sermon. He also chooses the subject for the childrens sermon and the hymns so that everything ties together into a coherent theme.

BTW, Lotar -- You don't pass the constitutional age test. I can't vote for you.

 

[Lotar]

Lotar, love your sigs

Thanks

What ensures that certain Scripture is not glossed over or ignored, IOW that all of the Gospel is preached and not just those that the Pastor thinks are important or will go down smooth.
Note: I ask this in general to those whose Pastor selects the Scripture and not as a follow on to Lotar's response.

Nothing, some pastors are better than others. But that is why it is important to be more than a Sunday morning Christian. Sunday is never going to be greatly indepth anyways.

 

[Lotar]

Does he just read straight through beginning to end? Or does he jump around?

He is jumping around books, he did Genesis and is now going through Matthew. He reads straight through the chapters.

 

[Lotar]

BTW, Lotar -- You don't pass the constitutional age test. I can't vote for you.

I'm planning on either aging 11 years real quickly, or getting a fake ID

 

[Filia Mariae]

I'm planning on either aging 11 years real quickly, or getting a fake ID

I'll sell you my old one from when I was in college for eighty bucks.

 

[thanksjesus]

I go to a Baptist Church. Pastor decides what scriptures we go over. Right now, he is taking us through an indepth study on book of Romans. '


Lotar, you are so right. We have to read the Word as much as possible. Once a week is not enough to feed us, and I get real HUNGRY.

 

[II Paradox II]

How is it decided what Scripture readings will be read in church on any given Sunday, in your particular church?

Our church generally bounces around to whatever seems most appropriate at the time. We have gone by planned reading schedules in the past though.

ken

 

[AngelAmidala]

We follow what's known as the lectionary. It rotates on a 3-year cycle, so what is read now is read in another 3 years.

Here's a link to Vanderbilt Divinity Library's resource for the Revised Common Lectionary:

http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/

This is what I have linked at home for when I need to prep in advance for leading worship.

 

[Serapha]

Hi there!


We do a variety of things. The pastor who is "preaching" picks the scriptures for church; however, there are groups or cells that cover books or subjects. The groups may cover a particular book of the Bible, or they may cover a particular published material. Throughout the week, the material covered is pretty broad-ranged.


~malaka~

 

[Serapha]

What ensures that certain Scripture is not glossed over or ignored, IOW that all of the Gospel is preached and not just those that the Pastor thinks are important or will go down smooth.

hi there!



I hear a lot of sermons that don't "go down smooth", so he must be covering all the bases.


Seriously, throughout the year, certain books of the Bible are selected for study or sometimes for sermons. Most ministers "pass" on studies on the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and most pass on "Numbers"... but everything else is eventually covered. I could never accuse the pastor of "glossing" it. the church is a hospital for sick souls. You just can't "gloss" that.




~malaka~

 

[MikeMcK]

How is it decided what Scripture readings will be read in church on any given Sunday, in your particular church?

Usually by what ever subject the preacher is preaching on that day.

We also have congregational readings, in which case he likes to pick on me by waiting until I'm least prepared or, more likely, trying to remember the words to the song I'm about to sing and, two seconds before I have to read it, shoving a piece of paper in my hand and saying, "Oh, by the way..."

 

[KristiXP]

Our Pastor decides what he will read. He always jumps around in the Bible, which I don't mind at all.