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Open this book, start reading any chapter out loud with at least one other person, and you are having Church. Complete worship services are built on Bible portions from Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary (church calendar). Dan wrote and preached the story-messages to unfold New Testament truth with Old Testament grounding. Renée selected music and other worship components to reinforce themes for the entire yea: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost. The final 23 services are also in the separate 1 Story book Pentecost in War and Peace-highly relevant in troubled times. Pastoral and offertory prayers, calls to worship and benediction, communion service for each section-it's all here-and readers freely insert their own worship components wherever desired. The services are dialogical-conversations between God and those who worship him. God speaks through one portion of his Word, and we respond with a related portion. God speaks through music; we respond in prayer. God speaks through his Spirit; we respond with singing. God speaks into our hearts; we respond with obedience, and in giving tithes and offerings. God speaks through his preaching servant, and we respond-as often as we do it-by partaking of the body and blood of Christ. Unabridged scripture texts and most song lyrics have been deleted from this printing for copyright reasons but are available at BibleGateway.com and Hymnary.org, The third valuable online source is lectionarypage.net. Think of it!-45 complete worship services for just one dollar each-useful in churches of two or 2,000, and in private devotions. Each chapter takes 40 to 60 minutes assuming you look up and read all scripture texts and sing all verses of all the songs. These conversations with God immerse you in his story and align your spirit with the risen One who lives and reigns with his Father and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever.

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