Another point of uniqueness for these chapels is the request of Bill Wolf, Dean of the Chapel at Johnson U. to consider using Scripture from the lectionary for the week. There is no requirement to use it, because the speaker is free to go where God wants them to go. If you wish to watch this message, you may simply click
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I happily embraced the lectionary passages for there week, because I found a great theme running through them. In each passage, I sensed God addressing a common cry every human being experiences, “When?” Abram knew that God had given a wonderful promise. He knew God’s promises are sure, but we all know he sometimes wondered, “When will you make the promise real?” David wrote confidently, God was his sense of help, and he was confident God’s help would come, but there are times David wondered, “When?” Paul knew that God’s grace had set him free from the law of sin and death. Paul lived in the assurance that sin held no authority over him, but he also wondered, “When will I stop doing the things I do not want to do, and when will I start doing the things I desire?” Even a grand experience like the transfiguration left the handful of disciples wondering, “When will we experience something like this again? We HAVE to build a memorial to remember it.”
The remembrance of the Lord’s Supper is the perfect memorial when our heart’s cry our to God…”WHEN?” It is in the table that we are reminded regularly that every promise of God is as sure as if it were happening now. I find myself regularly asking God, “When?” I hope every time I meet Him at His table, I stand before God asking Him to help my unbelief, because THIS is the perfect memorial when I am wondering, “When?”
