tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096696136024576011.post9149900085012502803..comments2024-02-28T07:57:08.325-07:00Comments on Faith, Grace, and Hope: Unity in SilosPastor Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01483149432826000955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096696136024576011.post-17091909846776275752011-06-09T00:51:01.407-06:002011-06-09T00:51:01.407-06:00I'm looking forward to using the Narrative Lec...I'm looking forward to using the Narrative Lectionary. I don't think that I will feel the disconnect from the RCL to impact the value of my worship or threaten my "lutheran identity". If anything- it should affirm my connection to the narrative of what I believe. <br />MBMary Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244214341235957283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096696136024576011.post-4796031887647493222011-06-03T21:13:50.240-06:002011-06-03T21:13:50.240-06:00Love this new routine. A better understanding can ...Love this new routine. A better understanding can bring peace, if not directly, than indirectly...and I'm all for (the) peace. Proud of you for "continuing on."gena g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09588960935731579006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096696136024576011.post-78164838180583252202011-06-02T20:53:12.400-06:002011-06-02T20:53:12.400-06:00Our church in N Mn has been using the Narrative Le...Our church in N Mn has been using the Narrative Lectionary (from Luther Sem) the past 9 months. It ends either this Sunday or next Sunday. Our interim pastor told me we will pick up on year 2 starting in Sept. She wasn't the pastor here when we decided to start it.<br /><br />The pros of this lectionary is, of course, that there is the flow through the Bible, in chronological order, not in Bible book order. <br /><br />The con is that we don't have the three readings, plus the psalms. There is a psalm, however, it isn't listed on the handy-dandy bookmark provided by the Narrative Lectionary material from Luther Sem. Since I read a lots of pastor/churchy blogs, I'm not in sync with what people are posting about up-coming lessons for each Sunday now.<br /><br />Context for me: I go to a weekly small group Bible study of women who read the upcoming lesson(s) for the coming Sunday. It is nice to get a foretaste of the coming reading. This is a long standing group and some of our previous pastors have attended this group when they are available, as participants, not as teachers. <br /><br />My husband attends a weekly text study started by the previous pastor who hoped that some of the retired pastors around her as well as other would attend. It is a very small group, and probably more intellectually focused on the readings. My husband misses looking at the three readings each week. But sometimes he tunes in to the pod cast on the 'web of the Luther Sem prof who talks about each week's lesson. How many of our people are tech savvy to do this???<br /><br />I can't say how the average pew-sitter has reacted to this lectionary series. The pastor who left at the end of 2010 always provided a list of daily readings in the bulletin for those who wished to fill in the story between Sundays. Who knows how many people followed this. Our interim pastor hasn't done this. <br /><br />My daughter is a pastor who has told me that her church and several in her area in Wisconsin are also doing a narrative series, beginning Jan 2011. I think that they are devising it themselves. I haven't heard what she thinks now after 5 months.<br /><br />I really don't think there should be any worry about whether this takes us away from what other groups are doing. All my life, I've been in churches that use the lectionary, but occasionally, the pastor does a sermon series that he/she devises. No body seems worried about that. Nobody seems to think that that has to be reported to higher authorities or something. Do we know or care if the other churches in town are sticking to the lectionary during a certain season*? I would guess not. As for those other groups, even the other Lutheran groups, who sometimes come across as believing that we are not quite pure enough to get into heaven, well, I really don't care what they think. As I've told my son, who I hope finds a church he is willing to attend, now living in an area of few Lutherans: If the church has more rules for joining than God has for getting into heaven, walk, no run, the other way!<br /><br />*But yes, it really is nice that so many churches do often have the same scriptures on Sunday. Quite some years ago, I would come home from my church, turn on the radio, and hear a sermon on the same verses from a Catholic church.LoieJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977264499770654307noreply@blogger.com