Major changes to preaching schedule...

Ok...

I'm going to ditch the lectionary for a little while here.

As you may know, I've been staggered a week or two from the lectionary for the past several weeks, as a result of my traveling schedule and special speakers. I had planned to end Ordinary Time with The Sheep and the Goats, but our missionary speaker used that passage on Oct 30.

Yesterday, I had prepped a sermon on Proper 25A - The Greatest Commandment. The sermon dealt with both of the two greatest commandments. However, partway through the message I realized that I had tried to bite off too much, and that I should have just dealt with one....and so I made the commitment to handle the second one next week. That leaves me with just one week left in Ordinary Time, and so I think I will complete the series on Matthew with a look at the Great Commission.

This will give us an opportunity to look at what Warren calls "the Biblical Purposes of the church" which will be beneficial to us as we are currently going through our own revisioning process of rewriting our mission statement.

I'll be getting back to the lectionary during Advent, Christmas and Epiphany/Ordinary, but will then be deviating again during Lent as we follow The Quest.

Thank you for joining me on this journey through the lectionary. Comments are always welcome.

Grace and Peace,

PastorJon