“Pirate” over at BHTÂ wrote this:
According to my professors here, being a “liturgical church†is first and foremost about following a lectionary, not just a particular prewritten order of service. There’s something to be said for following texts ordered around the life of Christ in union with everyone else with your fellowship versus “Preaching through I Corinthians until I get tired of it and move on.â€
I most definitely prefer that a pastor be guided by a lectionary to that pastor’s preaching whatever he “feels led” to preach. Pirate has hit on the primary reason that I wrote the post on preaching the story of Christ. Lectionary preaching helps to keep the focus on the Christ story, and further advantages are the prevention of the pastor’s going wherever he wants, and the ”union,” as Pirate says, of all the churches that preach from that same text on that same morning.Â
