Duties Toward Others
Worship
In the Beginning Was the Word
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir, Cycle A
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
8 readers - a variety of folk
Speakers read in a frank manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.
Key:
1-8 = speakers
1: Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
2: The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
3: Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
4: Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep.
5: For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near.
6: Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
7: let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
8: Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
8 readers - a variety of folk
Speakers read in a frank manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.
Key:
1-8 = speakers
1: Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
2: The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
3: Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
4: Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep.
5: For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near.
6: Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
7: let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
8: Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
