
Which Calendar Do You Follow?
Most of us use a calendar as a part of our worship planning time as we look ahead to church events, holidays, sermon series, etc. But what is your primary calendar? Do we incorporate a mixture of calendars (i.e. liturgical year and US holidays, and Church activities). Or do we dedicate our worship planning to a single calendar? Below is the beginning of a Bible Study on worship planning from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. In this section, various "calendars" are described and evaluated on their merit in our culture and in our worship with a final push to follow a primary calendar. What calendar or type of calendar do you use to shape your worship planning?
Posted On
May 28, 2013Updated On
January 11, 2018Let's Discuss…

Hi Kevin,
'Appreciate this article on worship planning. I agree that the Church Calendar should be our primary guide for worship planning in the church, and that is what I encourage. But we also keep the "church program" calendar in mind (i.e., Sunday School kick-off; community service Sunday, etc. And we also remember such "greeting card" holidays as Mother's Day and high school graduation. As the Church Calendar is most important to me, I've found it helpful to be proactive and plan my preaching calendar based on it well in advance, which then pulls the worship committee in this direction in terms of their planning. I suspect that if I didn't do that, the church program and "greeting card" calendars would have significantly more influence.
Thanks again for writing the interesting article.
--Leon
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