Living the Good News

Living the Good News is offered to two age groups at Grace Church--grades 1 through 3 and grades 4 and 5.  Living the Good News is a lectionary based program. The lectionary chooses common Bible readings for Sunday that are heard by many Christians throughout the world. The calendar of readings follows the life of Jesus, focusing on his birth, death and resurrection in the first half, and in the second, his actions and teachings. There are several reasons why we use the lectionary for faith formation. First, it leads us to the essence of our faith, our relationship with Christ. Second, it enables multiple age groups of our parish to study the same content together. Third, we know that as a Christian community, our basic beliefs flow from our scripture and liturgy. The gospel challenges us to work out ways to apply it to our daily lives. After we gather for the Eucharist, we take what we have received in church out into the world. As we do, we find that our doctrine, our sacramental life and our commitment to outreach all flower from the word of God.