The New Life In Christ
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
All readers are seated throughout the congregation.
8 readers -- a variety of people
Key:
1-8 = readers
1: So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth
to our neighbors, for we are members of one another.
2: Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your
anger, and do not make room for the devil.
3: Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work
honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share
with the needy.
4: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is
useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may
give grace to those who hear.
5: And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were
marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
6: Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and
wrangling and slander, together with all malice,
7: and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
8: Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live
in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a
fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
All readers are seated throughout the congregation.
8 readers -- a variety of people
Key:
1-8 = readers
1: So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth
to our neighbors, for we are members of one another.
2: Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your
anger, and do not make room for the devil.
3: Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work
honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share
with the needy.
4: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is
useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may
give grace to those who hear.
5: And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were
marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
6: Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and
wrangling and slander, together with all malice,
7: and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
8: Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live
in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a
fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
