Scott
Puritan Board Graduate
Who should read the Word in public worship? What biblical texts would you use to defend your position? A few relevant items:
PCA BCO BCO 50-2:
From the OPC Directory of Worship:
From the Larger Catechism:
PCA BCO BCO 50-2:
The reading of the Holy Scriptures in the congregation is a part of the public worship of God and should be done by the minister or some other person.
From the OPC Directory of Worship:
"The public reading of the Holy Scriptures is performed by the minister as God's servant. Through it God speaks most directly to the congregation, even more directly than through the interpretation of Holy Writ in the sermon."
From the Larger Catechism:
Q156: Is the word of God to be read by all?
A156: Although all are not to be permitted to read the word publicly to the congregation,[1] yet all sorts of people are bound to read it apart by themselves,[2] and with their families:[3] to which end, the holy scriptures are to be translated out of the original into vulgar languages.[4]
1. Deut. 31:9, 11-13; Neh. 8:2-3; 9:3-5
2. Deut. 17:19; Rev. 1:3; John 5:39; Isa. 34:16
3. Deut. 6:6-9; Gen. 18:17, 19; Psa. 78:5-7
4. I Cor. 14:6, 9, 11-12, 15-16, 24, 27-28