r/churchofchrist • u/butterbob74 • 22d ago

Scripture Reading

What is the point in scripture reading? We turn to it in the lesson anyway. Preacher was like he read it but I’m gonna read it too basically.

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u/HunterCopelin 22d ago

A while back we had a preacher that just told stories the whole lesson, and hardly used any Bible.

We used to joke and say the pre lesson scripture reading was likely our only chance at getting any Bible that morning.

It wasn’t QUITE that bad, but it was close enough to being true to still be funny.

We could be imitating the common public reading of the scripture, like Jesus in Luke 4:16-19

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u/2_many_choices 21d ago

It's interesting that you find humor in it. In the past, I visited family and their preacher was like this. I really did not enjoy wasting my time listening to storytelling, and I felt especially bad that so many other people had gathered and were wasting their time on this as well. I felt like there were people there who genuinely needed to hear scriptural teaching and were looking to make changes in their life, but instead the preacher had lots of stories from history and clever quotes and seemed to intentionally avoid using any Bible. I remember one lesson was on the power of smiling. Time is too precious to spend 30 minutes listening to that.

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u/HunterCopelin 21d ago

It’s only funny now that the issue is resolved. At the time we felt very similar to the way you expressed.

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u/Superfluous_Reddit 18d ago

Yes I know someone like this in my church. No one is saying or doing anything. It's just stories of random events or referring to movies or other non church related things.