Reading John…
Last night, our family gathered with about 40 other brothers and sisters to read the Gospel of John. The family that hosted last night also hosted a reading of the Gospel of Luke in December. Our family was not able to attend the reading of Luke, so this was our first time to sit through a community reading of a gospel.
We started by breaking bread as part of the Lord’s Supper. Then, we all shared a meal. After the meal, we sang a song and began reading John. One person read each chapter (the chapters had been assigned as people arrived). After each group of seven chapters, we took a fifteen minute break. During the breaks, we would eat and sing songs again. After reading all twenty-one chapters, we shared the cup of the Lord’s Supper.
This was a very special time for us. It was amazing to hear the Gospel of John read in one sitting in a community of believers.
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What a blessing this must have been for you and your family and all the others present! Thanks for sharing 🙂
~Heather
Sounds wonderful, Alan. Makes me wish we lived just a little bit closer….
Taking the cup after having read the gospel of John really added another dimension to the words “do this in remembrance of me.”
Christy, maybe you can sponsor such a reading where you live.
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Alan-
I love the idea of reading a Gospel through in one sitting. Our church has occasionally done a supper in connection with our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, but has not done the reading. I shared your post with my husband, and he thought we might want to do that with each of the Gospels at various times. Our church family is a little smaller than your’s, and I think we’d all enjoy it.
Kat
Good idea!
You obviously had a wonderful time of fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ.
Be blessed 🙂
I wish I could say that reading the Gospel of John as a community was my idea. It wasn’t. However, I was certainly blessed by it.
I would recommend reading a book of the Bible with believers whenever you can.
-Alan