Fourth Encounter: A Good Question
Text: Mark 12:28-34
Speaker: Joel Miller
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost ten years since we did the Twelve Scriptures Project. For the slightly more than half of you who weren’t around then - or for those who were, but forget the details - the Twelve Scriptures Project was something our denomination, Mennonite Church USA, encouraged congregations to do. The idea was fairly simple. Put in the form of question, it was something like: Which twelve scriptures are core to your congregation? Out of all the teachings in the Bible, which are foundational?
The way we arrived at our twelve was to invite everyone to answer this question for themselves, kids included, leaving it slightly undefined whether the list was your personal twelve scriptures, or what you perceived as the twelve scriptures defining the congregation. Several Sunday school sessions were used to share these lists, discuss, and compile the results, with the most common mentions becoming our collective Twelve Scriptures.
We then had a...