The Frustration Of Being Human
Worship
In the Beginning Was the Word
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir, Cycle A
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
Speakers read in a thoughtful manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.
9 readers - a variety of folk
Key:
1-9 = speakers
1: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
2: Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
3: But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
4: For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh.
5: I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
6: For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
7: Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
8: So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.
9: For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, makIng me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
All: Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
Speakers read in a thoughtful manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.
9 readers - a variety of folk
Key:
1-9 = speakers
1: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
2: Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
3: But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
4: For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh.
5: I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
6: For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
7: Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
8: So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.
9: For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, makIng me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
All: Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
