Using the Revised Common Lectionary…

Our community of faith uses the Revised Common Lectionary to help organize our weekly Scripture readings. It’s a wonderful tool– and it’s a handy way for everyone to be on the same page weeks in advance. One other benefit? After spending three years in the lectionary cycle, our faith community will have been through all the major sections of Scripture in the Bible.

Here is the main link you’ll need to check weekly Scripture readings: Revised Common Lectionary.

Here’s the link for this coming Sunday’s Scripture only:

One other helpful link:

If you’d like a recommendation for daily lectionary readings, try this link.

Here’s a good question for you– and it’s one that I would hope all members of our community of faith should be able to articulate when asked about Epiclesis: “What makes us an ancient-future church?”

Now, sometimes when describing what something is, it’s also helpful to say what it is not, although I want us to be careful about that when the topic turns to church, lest we become smug (I once knew of a church that launched itself with a great marketing fanfare by telling the world that they were nothing like all those boring churches with the oldy-moldy music. Listen, churches that build on style will eventually find that they have become the oldy-moldy church they so badly wanted not to be. Nothing “dates” a church more than when it camps out in a particular style, even if it’s called “contemporary”. Besides, Simone Weil once said, “In order to always be relevant, say things that are eternal”).

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