{"id":6492,"date":"2010-01-08T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/08\/on-the-public-reading-of-scripture\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:10:06","slug":"on-the-public-reading-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/08\/on-the-public-reading-of-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Public Reading of Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Scripturereading.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>I don\u2019t know if seminaries teach seminarians how to read the Bible publicly. I don\u2019t recall one student in my dozen or so years teaching seminary students ever mentioning public reading of Scripture as a discipline or as an important subject. I don\u2019t even recall it being discussed.<\/p>\n

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What is your experience with the public reading of Scripture? Who is beginning this on a regular basis?\u00a0<\/b>\n
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When Christians couldn\u2019t read, artists painted murals on the walls so those who couldn\u2019t read could at least \u201csee\u201d the Bible\u2019s stories. Last summer we spent more than an hour pondering the paintings of the great murals in the church in San Gimignano, a picturesque walled village not far from Siena in Italy. Paintings are interpretations, to be sure, but one of the major intents was to inform the church of the content of the Bible\u2019s stories.<\/div>\n
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Oddly enough, we live in a day when more people have Bibles, when nearly everyone can read, when everyone has access online or in print form to Bible studies and study aids, but when Bible knowledge is dramatically decreasing. Just mention \u201cJephthah\u201d and see how many in the church even know the story. \u00a0Put simply, if folks don\u2019t get it in Sunday School, the chances are high they didn\u2019t get it.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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So what to do? Many of us are urging pastors and churches to consider more public reading of Scripture and taking the task so seriously that they study how to do it well. Enter now the excellent new book by Max McLean (with Warren Bird): Unleashing the Word: Rediscovering the Public Reading of Scripture<\/a>\"\"
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Sure, this involves the text for the sermon but what we have in mind is more than reading the passage on which the sermon is based. Instead, we are talking about the value of lectionary reading of Scripture \u2014 aloud \u2014 weekly \u2014 well \u2014 so that God\u2019s People can \u201clisten\u201d to the Word and hear what God is saying.<\/div>\n
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This book is all you need: it includes Max\u2019s story, the basics \u2014 always clear and outlined \u2014 and even how to teach others to read Scripture aloud. There is stuff on what to say before you read and how to prepare yourself for public reading of Scripture. There\u2019s a DVD too!<\/div>\n
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