tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post573209560333309372..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: O'Donovan on readingbyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-32010022875906428802008-12-22T16:58:00.000+00:002008-12-22T16:58:00.000+00:00Anthony: I also liked your idea of Jeremiah 31 str...Anthony: I also liked your idea of Jeremiah 31 structuring the service. How explicitly did you bring that out?byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-68279586028926445482008-12-22T16:57:00.000+00:002008-12-22T16:57:00.000+00:00Dave - I love the idea of storytime! Great stuff. ...Dave - I love the idea of storytime! Great stuff. I agree that often a (very brief) intro to a reading is very appropriate. Also, the sermon can be an explanation of one or more of the lectionary readings<BR/><BR/>However, I also think it can often be a <I>good</I> thing for people to go home not feeling like they have understood everything. Too much of this can be disheartening, but too little byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-81838333543922332412008-12-22T00:10:00.000+00:002008-12-22T00:10:00.000+00:00Byron, in practice I think that many passages of s...Byron, in practice I think that many passages of scripture make little sense to most of the congregation unless they are explained.<BR/><BR/>At our 8am service we follow the lectionary for two of the three readings and the third is replaced by the passage being preached on. The two lectionary readings are read without any explanation and my feeling is that they just as often leave the Dave Barriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10890664187276008177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-55500420021771595372008-12-18T23:30:00.000+00:002008-12-18T23:30:00.000+00:00Hear hear. Pun definitely intended, of course.That...Hear hear. Pun definitely intended, of course.<BR/><BR/>That's a superb quote from OOD. Though I'll have to think more about the priority of a lectern over a pulpit...aside from the huge cost of remodelling hundreds of old churches, there seems to be grounds to see the sermon as the word proclaimed as much as the reading is the word read...<BR/><BR/>Last Sunday, our sermon was on Jeremiah 31. TheAnthony Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277745466192451883noreply@blogger.com