Comments on: Responsive Reading Requests

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:13 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work

By: Tom Schankweiler

Tom Schankweiler — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:18:59 +0000

http://fwbreadings.blogspot.com/2004/12/table-of-contents.html This link has been a good resource for me and is well organized by topics. It is from a Baptist Hymnal.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:51:27 +0000

we use responsive readings alot at the community I lead worship in. What we use the majority of the time is the Book of Common Prayer, and the United Methodist Book of Worship. Most “main-line” traditions have readings in their hymnals/prayer/worship books that are often steeped in the tradition of the Church. their is also some really good stuff in Eastern Orthodox liturgies.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:19 +0000

http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?loc_id=962,1174&act=nav_loc
The United Methodist Church has some responsive readings online in a category called 21st Century Worship. Maybe you would find them useful?

By: Steve Wests

Steve Wests — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:56:40 +0000

I’m with Ryan, you really can’t beat the psalms. Use creativity andd variety in how they are done (leader/response, side to side, pregnant pauses between verses, do just part of them, sing them leader/response, use a sung response, etc.) to try and reclaim the power of psalms and keep from getting into a rote/routine approach. Praying the psalms puts us in touch with ancient prayer and the prayers of Jesus and articulates the soul’s deepest longings.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:48:37 +0000

The Psalms

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:45:14 +0000

I’d love to hear some feedback from leaders who have really found this effective in helping their congregations to meet with God during the service. I think responsive readings can be awesome, but every time I think through using them with our congregation, I back off because I just feel it will come across completely wrong and just have the opposite effect.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:31:08 +0000

the back of old hymnals-methodist espcially have several…from what i remember:)

By: Christopher Gates

Christopher Gates — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:02:59 +0000

you can look at the worship guides for every sunday at Redeemer Church in Fort Worth. They always do responsive readings. http://www.redeemerfortworth.org

By: Bill A

Bill A — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:56:31 +0000

I don’t have an online version, but the hymnal we have has 225 responsive readings. All from various Bible texts
http://www.adventistbookcenter.com/Detail.tpl?sku=0828003076