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Date Posted: 20:36:11 04/13/11 Wed
Author: George
Subject: Re: Provided by the Community of Christ? Sort of.
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Provided by the Community of Christ? Sort of." on 11:05:17 04/13/11 Wed

>>the organization that provided the listing of daily
>>scripture readings is the community of christ.
>>
>>i merely compile the readings and post them to make it
>>easier for people to read.
>>
>>john
>
>john,
>
>Really?!?
>
> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/Worship10-11/intro.asp">
>http://www.cofchrist.org/Worship10-11/intro.asp
>
>Since 1995, this resource has been based on The
>Revised Common Lectionary, a widely used cycle of
>biblical readings. As we continue to use this schedule
>of scripture reading as a basis for worship, the
>scriptural literacy of the church will expand.
>Scriptures from the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and
>Covenants are included in each service outline in
>Section III.
>
>(Note: I don't recall john listing any Book of Mormon
>or Doctrine and Covenants scriptures. Check that one
>out before john calls me a liar.)
>
> >href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Common_Lecti
>onary">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Common_Lect
>ionary
>
>The Revised Common Lectionary is a lectionary
>of readings or pericopes from the Bible for use in
>Christian worship, making provision for the liturgical
>year with its pattern of observances of festivals and
>seasons. Its first version was known as the Common
>Lectionary, assembled in 1983, itself an ecumenical
>revision of the 1969 Ordo Lectionum Missae, a
>three-year lectionary produced by the Catholic Church
>following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
>The revision was the product of a collaboration
>between the North American Consultation on Common
>Texts (CCT) and the International English Language
>Liturgical Consultation (ELLC). After a nine-year
>trial period, it was publicly released in 1994. The
>CCT membership includes the United States Conference
>of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of
>Catholic Bishops as well as many traditional
>"mainline" or "liturgically-based" American and
>Canadian Protestant denominations such as Lutheran,
>North American Anglican (Episcopalian), Presbyterian,
>and more loosely Methodist and/or Seventh Day
>Adventist. The CCT thereby represents the majority of
>American and Canadian Christians and has been widely
>adopted in Great Britain.
>
>Year B begins on the first Sunday of Advent in 2011,
>2014, 2017, 2020, etc.
>
>(Note: The Community of Christ is behind schedule for
>some reason. Is it to deceive the membership? This
>year is supposed to be Year B. The c-not-of-c is on
>Year A.)
>
> >href="http://www.lectionarystudies.com/lectionarya.html
>">http://www.lectionarystudies.com/lectionarya.html
>
>Year A
>
>Lent 1 Gen.2:15-17, 3:1-7 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11
>
>Lent 2 Genesis 12:1-4a Rom.4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17
>
>Lent 3 Exodus 17:1-7 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42
>
>Lent 4 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41
>
>Lent 5 Ezekiel 37:1-1 4 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45
>
>(Note: These are readings for Sundays.)
>
>Submitted by Lois

Lois, that "provided by" is a rather elastic phrase that can mean virtually anything. I once sat in on a meeting of a professional licensing board that was having a hearing regarding disciplinary action against a health care professional. The person in question had prescribed some 150 odd large tablets of hydromorphone to a spouse, beginning shortly before the time of the marriage. At that time, prescriptions for this type of narcotic were required to be made out in triplicate. The doctor kept one copy, and the original and copy went to the patient, who took it to the pharmacy, which filled the Rx, and sent the remaining copy in to the State Board of Pharmacy, which in turn contacted investigators for the appropriate licensing board. The defense attorney, I had been told, had never had any experience in this field before -- he specialized in disbarment proceedings against attorneys, so his arguments were rather convoluted and technical. He argued before the board that the information being used to indict the licensee had been provided by the licensee himself. He made this seemingly silly claim on the basis that the doctor had originally committed the prescription to writing and gave the appropriate copies to the patient.

Now given the chain of custody I mentioned above, this is a strange argument. But it resembles the arguments and apologetic made all the time for the Community of Christ.

Please note: since Wallace B. Smith is a medical doctor, I do not mean to insinuate that he ever did anything of this kind. I have never heard anything critical of Dr. Smith's practice of medicine. I only compare the arguments of the attorney on behalf of his client with the arguments of CofC apologists on behalf of that church.
I say this since the leadership of the church seem to have sensitive and tender feelings that get aroused occasionally by statements they don't follow too well.

George

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