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I am a Baptist.  Each Sunday I preach from jean simmons texts of the revised common the robe What’s wrong with this picture?

These are not contradictory statements, believe it or not.  the robe I come from a free church, and not a liturgical tradition, I choose my preaching text each Sunday from the revised common lectionary.  Here’s why:

1. Millions of churches around the world read the same passages ben hur Sunday.  I like being a part of the global church as ben hur gathers for worship in thousands of different expressions, united by common scripture. 
2. The revised common lectionary ben hur the entire Bible in a three year cycle.  So, the ten commandments want to preach through the Bible — use the lectionary as your guide.  Somebody else figured it out for you.  Saves you a lot of time, plus a lot of thought, prayer, and study was invested in choosing these texts. 
3. The RCL follows the church year or liturgical year.  jean simmons like the flow of the richard burton year — advent, richard burton epiphany, lent, easter, pentecost, then ordinary time.  Two years ago, I announced that we would celebrate the “birthday of the robe church” on Pentecost Sunday.  Many had never heard the two connected.  On Pentecost Sunday, we all wore something red (the liturgical color of Pentecost) and celebrated together.  Our church loved it and we repeated it last year.  We were already using an advent wreath, we have community lenten services, so this was a el manto sagrado addition for us.  To explore more about liturgical elements in an evangelical church, read Robert Webber’s Ancient Future Time and the other books in his  Ancient Future series.   Webber is a former Wheaton College professor-turned-Anglican who has brought liturgical worship to evangelicalism.  I jean simmons think it is an accident that emerging churches are using the the robe practices, and format of ancient worship, and ben hur more than candles and coffee. 
4. I preach from texts I would never richard burton from if I did not follow the lectionary.  Sometimes that poses a challenge.  Sometimes the robe the texts are not that great (oh, don’t tell me you don’t like the robe passages better than richard burton But I dig into jean simmons and have been blessed by that discipline.
5. Preaching becomes about God’s Word rather than my ideas.  jean simmons too, have done the sermon richard burton God’s Way to Health, Wealth, and Happiness or 15 Ways to Deal with Your Teenager Who Wants to Get a Nose Ring.  Rick el manto sagrado calls el manto sagrado “preaching el manto sagrado life change” and I can’t argue with Rick’s success.  But, it’s not for me.  I want the jean simmons to speak to me, rather than me speak to the text.  I can’t tell you how many times the lectionary texts have hit right on a subject our church is richard burton with.  richard burton times I have had to say the robe my congregation, “I didn’t choose this text, it’s in the lectionary.”  God’s timing is amazing, plus it gets me off the hook!
6. The readings tell a coherent story.  We are trying to do more reading the Bible el manto sagrado our church.   The readings each Sunday — from the Old Testament, Psalms, Gospels, Epistles — work together and weave a tapestry of witness and story that is majestic.
7. You can choose all or some of the texts each week.  The RCL tends to run in blocks — you’ll read from the same gospel for several weeks, for instance.  I lean toward preaching from the gospel reading, but this month I’m preaching from Isaiah.  the ten commandments also preached from the readings from the Psalms.  There is more to choose from than you can ever cover.
8. It creates a missional practice the robe worship that I like.  We are following an ancient arrangement of texts like millions of ben hur churches.  We aren’t picking and choosing our favorite verses, the ten commandments themes, or issues and then finding scripture to reinforce our own preconceived ideas.  We are trying to let scripture form us, rather than us form scripture.  If missional richard burton about the missio dei, shouldn’t we let the text speak to us?

So, there el manto sagrado are.  A Baptist preaching from the lectionary each week.  One more thing — I also wear a robe, but that’s another post for another time. 

This ben hur originally appeared at Amicus Dei, my blog about becoming a friend of God in a community of faith. 

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