Continuing invitation to receive the Word of God as spirit and life

Since this blog began in March 2008, most of the posts have focused on the scriptures provided in the Revised Common Lectionary for each week’s worship service. Each blog post preceded the Sabbath or Sunday when the scriptures would be used. In that way, the dated blog entries were available to help lay members or clergy prepare for the next worship service.

There was also a more essential purpose for each of these posts. This purpose continues to be served by the posts at this blog about scriptures. That most essential purpose is to invite you, the reader of these blog posts, to receive the scriptures as spirit and life, for yourself. That essential purpose can be realized, no matter which scriptures, and which dates, are involved.

In addition to reflections on Scriptures, many of these archived posts include thoughts about how to receive scriptures as spirit and life. By reviewing these thoughts, and by reviewing the basic suggestions at http://charistis.blogspot.com/2008/03/receiving-word-as-spirit-and-life.html, you can grow in the ability to receive scripture as spirit and life.

Currently, weekly reflections on the lectionary scriptures are not being posted. However, please remember you can still use the archives to increase your capacity for receiving the Word as spirit and life.

In addition to providing the archives at this blog, I plan to establish a Facebook site soon in order to network about growing in worship. How are Christians growing in worship? How are individuals and congregations increasing their interest in and capacity for reverence? How are individuals and congregations growing in other foundational aspects of worship such as the human encounter with the divine; a sense of the holy; heart as center of whole person; repentance, confession and forgiveness; prayer as two-way communion with God; holy fear, and holy joy.
What congregations already have, or want to develop, a worship statement? How have they developed it? How are they using it to good advantage? How do they revise it? These are some of the questions I hope to raise and network about through Facebook.

Your responses here, or in the future at Facebook, are welcome.