Narrative Lectionary
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Does anyone out there use the Narrative Lectionary? https://www.workingpreacher.org/home-narrative-lectionary#
Our pastors/worship committee are exploring whether we want to use it. I'm intrigued, but after 12+ years as a very organized planner using the Revised Common Lectionary, I am also semi-dreading spending much more time in planning.
NL comes with hymn suggestions, and I figured I'd using those and general themes as a springboard, but at first glance I'm having the same songs about God's faithfulness and our trust pop into my head multiple times in the first several weeks.
I would love to see what you've used, or at least collaborate with anyone who might be starting this from scratch!
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Steve Partlow
Fri, 04/08/2022 - 11:48
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NL resources
My church used the Narrative Lectionary for a few years. I wasn't on the worship planning team at the time though some resources I've come across include:
* As you pointed out, Working Preacher has some hymn suggestions: https://www.workingpreacher.org/home-narrative-lectionary#
* I'm also still a member of the Narrative Lectionary Facebook Group which has discussions of the text most weeks and sometimes the music as well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NarrativeLectionary/
* TextWeek, which is very helpful for RCL, has a NL section but it isn't nearly as well populated: http://www.textweek.com/Narrative%20Lectionary/Narrative.htm
* And of course I'd recommend this site, where clicking on "Find Related Songs" next to each service suggests songs. I also use the "Top verse tags" (from the top of the search results) which hints at other themes to consider. https://wordtoworship.com/lectionary/narrative